was in pursuit, the Sufrites resolved to fight instead. Following a final ultimatum from Yahya, the two forces clashed. The Sufrites were defeated and Shayban...

The Sufris (Arabic: الصفرية aṣ-Ṣufriyya) were Khariji Muslims in the seventh and eighth centuries. They established the Midrarid state at Sijilmassa, now...

757–758 Abd al-Malik ibn Abi 'l-Jad al-Waranjumi (Sufrite), 758 (Ibadites of Tripoli depose Sufrites in Kairouan, 758) Abu al-Khattab Abd al-Ala ibn al-Samh...

The kingdom did not last long: in accordance with the strict rules of Sufrites, Abu Qurra would not allow his descendants to found a dynasty. He welcomed...

grew receptive to radical Kharijite activists from the east (notably of Sufrite and later Ibadite persuasion) which had begun arriving in the Maghreb in...

off an attack by the Berber rebel army raised in southern Tunisia by the Sufrite leader Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari. Handhala ibn Safwan arrived in Kairouan...

of Fez. In 789 AD, he captured Tlemcen (in modern-day Algeria) from the Sufrite Ifranid Abu Qurra which became part of the kingdom. This succession of...

sub-tribe of the Nafzawa, the Warfajuma had been fired up by Kharijite (Sufrites) and broken away during the Great Berber Revolt of 740s. Abd al-Wareth...

theologian, see Theodore Abu Qurrah Abu Qurra (Arabic: أبو قرة) a member of the Sufrite tribe Banu Ifran of Tlemcen, was the founder of the indigenous Berber Muslim...

relation with the prophet. The egalitarian Kharijite doctrine brought by the Sufrite preachers were indeed also found homage to the flocks of Berber soldiers...

during the Middle Ages. According to al-Bakri's Book of Routes and Places, Sufrite Kharijites first settled the town in the wake of the Berber revolts against...

al-Andalus. The Berber rebellion was inspired by Kharijite activists of the Sufrite sect, who held out the promise of a new puritan Islamic order, without...

between the Umayyad governor of ifriqya Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi and the Sufrite Berber insurgents led by Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari, the Umayyads were victorious...

endemic rebellions. The egalitarian Kharijite doctrine brought about by the Sufrite branch preachers even also found homage among the flocks of Berber soldiers...

the Umayyad governor of Ifriqya, Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, and the Sufrite Berber insurgents led by Abd al-Wahid ibn Yazid al-Hawwari. The Umayyads...

to consider radical Kharijite activists from the East, especially the Sufrites and Ibadites, which began to arrive in the Maghreb since the 720s. The...

al-Andalus. The Berber rebellion was inspired by Kharijite activists of the Sufrite sect, who held out the promise of a puritan Islamic order, without ethnic...

grew receptive to puritan Kharijite activists, particularly those of the Sufrite sect, that had begun arriving in the Maghreb, preaching a new political...

connection is tentative. According to al-Bakri's Book of Routes and Places, Sufrite Kharijites first settled the town in the wake of the Berber revolts against...

The Ourferdjouma or Urfedjouma, Warfajuma were a large Nefzaoua Sufrite Berber tribe. After capturing Kairouan in 757-758 from the Fihrids, the Ourferdjouma...

al-Rahman al-Fihri.[citation needed] In 757, the Warfajuma Berbers and their Sufrite allies swept up from southern Tunisia and captured Kairouan, killing Habib...

off an attack by the Berber rebel army raised in southern Tunisia by the Sufrite leader Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari. Handhala ibn Safwan arrived in Kairouan...

Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib (Cambridge Univ. 1971) at 75. E.g., the Sufrite Kharijites who ran the independent government in nearby Sijilmasa at times...

Tangiers against Ubayd Allah's tax-collectors and raiders. Fired up by Sufrite (Kharijite) activists, the Berber tribes of western Morocco (the Ghomara...