Banu Khattab
Banu Khattab | |||||||||
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| Capital | Zawila | ||||||||
| Religion | Islam (Ibadi) | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
• | Abdallah Ibn Khattab al-Hawwari | ||||||||
• | Muhammed ibn al-Khattab | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 918/919 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | c.1177 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Libya | ||||||||
Banu Khattab was a wealthy Ibadi dynasty of Hawwara origin that thrived off of the Trans-Saharan slave trade. It ruled over Zawila and the surrounding oases in the Fezzan region from 918/919 until 1172–1177 when it was sacked and conquered by the Armenian-Mamluk Qaraqush. The instability created by Qaraqush was exploited by the Kanem, who under the reign of Dunama Dabbalemi had seized control of the Fezzan, establishing a new capital at Traghan, a few miles west of Zawila.
They would later go on to rule the Fezzan again under the nominal control of the Hafsids in the 15th century.