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Also 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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