Rustamid dynasty
Sign in to saveAlso known as Rustamid State, Rostemid Emirate, Rustamid Emirate, Rustamid kingdom
Ibadi ruling house in Maghreb
Key facts
- Capital
- Tahert
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Common languages
- Arabic , Berber , Persian
- Religion
- Ibadi Islam
- Government
- Theocratic Imamate
- 777 788
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam
- 906 909
- Yaqzan ibn Muhammad
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofAlgeria Tunisia Libya
The Rustamid dynasty (Arabic: الرستميون) was an Ibadi dynasty of Persian origin which ruled a state that was centered in present-day Algeria. The dynasty governed as a Muslim theocracy for a century and a half from its capital Tahert (present day Tagdemt) until the Ismaili Fatimid Caliphate defeated it. Rustamid authority extended over what is now central and western Algeria, parts of southern Tunisia, and the Jebel Nafusa and Fezzan regions in Libya as far as Zawila.
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