Banou Ifren

The Banou Ifren or Ifren in Arabic أَويفرن, أوإفوراقس, أوإفوراغس, أوإفورن go down from Amazigh tribe of Africa and are Amazighs of the Maghreb and possibly an old tribe Berber which gave Ihag' garen and Iasgueren, etc

Ifren was a Berber king (a divinity). All kings Berbères of Numidie finish by " n" like Medghassen with Batna in Aurès. Msnsn (Masinissa), Mkwsn (Micipsa), Ygwrtn Jughurta, Ifren, Ygmrsn (yaghmorasen), medghasen, etc, all the names of the Berber kings finish by one (N).

The tribe Ifren or Ifrinidi or Iforen or (Latin Ifuraces or Afar) or Fren or Wafren or Yefren or Yafren or Yafran goes down from Ifri (the Ben was added by the Arab writers, one will say later Ben ifren or ifrinide, ifren: wants to say in Berber language zénète cave in the singular).

Ifren has as a brother Maghra (Maghraoua) and Irnyan, all go down from Isliten. They all are Zénète. Banou Ifren is a Berber wandering tribe. One finds them in the plains and the mountains with the Middle Ages.

It was a warlike tribe amazighe, experts in cavalry especially which they had the Barbe (horse), the Maghrebian horse. Before the arrival of the Moslem army, Ifrinides or Has Ifren expelled the Francs (Romain according to Ibn Khaldoun) which wanted to occupy the North Africa.

But, according to Corripus in Johannide, at the time of Jean Troglita under the reign of Justinien between 547 and 550, Blessed Ifren made the war with the Byzantine.

The name of the African continent, in the past Ifriquia (Tunisia currently), drift of the word Ifri (cave, cave) and Ifren (a cave in Berber language) that the Romans have gave to him. Thereafter, Africa will be the name of all the African continent.

These forgotten history amazighe founded several cities with the the central Maghreb after the Romains: Frenda, Tlemcen, Salted, Tedla, Ouargla, gaous, Touggourt, Ifren, etc

Before and after the death of Koceila, Banou Ifren were the first to defend their territory at the sides of the Kahina, of its true name Dihia, also going down from the tribe Zénète in the mountains of the Aurès. The Arab Moslems were expelled of the area.

Banou Ifren contributed in the relations between the north of Africa and the Andalusia especially with Khalifs Omeyyades.

Because of brutality of Berber, Banou Ifren held a sedentary big role of the two more important towns of Spain Cordoue and Seville at the time of the republican Ibn Djahwar about 1021.

This tribe will be the first Berber dynasty with the Maghraoua from 943 to 1015 to weaken Ommeyades.

Among Khalifes and the influential and important characters of the tribe:

Abou Qurra

Abou Qurra el Ifrinide (765) is the founder of the Kharidjisme in North Africa. It had 350000 riders under its command. That enabled him to seize the power with the Arab Moslems . Khalif Kharejiste Qurra (767 776) could gather all the Berbères. Qurra besieged the town of Karaouan, there the Arab chief of the Afriqia (Tunisia) died. At the end, Qurra leaves the command since Yazid- Ibn- Haten breaks the Berbère coalition. Forwarding that Qurra undertook, it made the greatest loss undergone to date of wire of Ifri. It results from it that Abou Qurra knew the bases of the religion well, that enabled him to be opposed to the tyrannical chiefs of Omeyyades and Abassides. Thereafter, Banou Ifren will gradually give up Kharidjisme after Abou Yezid. Kharidjisme will transform into Ibadisme with the arrival of Ibn Rustom the Persan one.

The wire of Qurra will be of the lord of Ronda in Andalusia.

Hakem or lord of Bni Ifren In Andalusia:

The son of Corra, Abou Nasr or Nour will be lord of Ronda and Seville in Andalusia of 1023 to 1039 and 1039 to 1054.

The son of Nour Badis Ben Hallal of 1054 to 1057 in Ronda.

Abou Nacer of 1057 to 1065 in Ronda.

Abu Yezid

The chief Abou Yezid of the tribe of Banou Ifren of the Tunisia raises the tribes resulting from Ifrinide the wire of Ouargou and the Merendjisa and all Chaouis.

Abou Yezid, known as the man with the ass, the sides of the chief of the sect Nekkarite Abd-el Hamid- el- Ama, known as the blind man, will make the war with the Fatimides. The doctrines of this Berber savage and energetic held in these words: to drive out the foreigner, to control the country by selected assemblies. It is always the democratic spirit and nationalist who reappears under the pretext of a war of religion. Abou Yezid will be put in prison by Fatimides then with the assistance of its sons, it will escape from the prison. It will gather several tribes in the Aurès (Chaouia) which will fight at its sides.

In 942, Abou Yezid will make the war in Kettama. Thereafter, Abou Yezid will occupy Tebessa and will take all the Tunisia with 100000 men. Fatimides will undergo a great loss. The Meiçour will be killed and Fatimides will end up fleeing the engagements. This war made human disasters on the Tunisian ground and Is Algérie. Abou Yezid will be disputed by the other chiefs of tribe and the population by her tyrannical intrigues. Yezid will die torture victim in July 947 in Kairaoun.

Fatimides at the sides of the Maghraoua will make the war with the Ifrinides chiefs thereafter. Abd-Allah-Ibn-Bekkar will become Ifrinide chief then his son Yala-Ibn-Mohamed will found Ifgan or Frenda.

Fatimides will drive back Bni Ifren towards the west of Algeria. A thankless struggle is entrepise against Ifrinides at that time.

Yala

In 954, Yala will take Oran, it will make evacuate the inhabitants of the city to destroy the town of Oran completely. Yala will take also Tiaret, it will establish its power in the Maghreb at the end.

Yala will make thereafter an alliance with Fatimides.

A member of Fatimides (Djouher) will assassinate Yala with Frenda into 958 at the end of the reign.

Yeddou

Yeddou wire of Yala will succeed Yala, it will conquer Chala and Fès. Yeddou will remove Fez with Ziri-Ibn- Atia of the Maghraoua tribe by twice. Yeddou wanted to reverse the Omeyyades. But Ziri-Ibn- Atia of the Maghraoua tribe will kill approximately 3000 men of Yeddou.

In 993, Yeddou died in the desert.

Habbous

Habbous, the brother of Yala, will take Tedla and will make peace in 1015 with Kairouan.

Temim-Ibn-Ziri

In 1029, Temim-Ibn-Ziri, small son of Yala will succeed the command of the tribe Ifren, it will take Temsna with the Berghwata. The first defeat of Berghwatas in the history. The area of Berghwatas is conquered by Ifrinides.

In 1033, the war bursts between the chiefs of tribe Ifrinide and Maghraoua.

Thereafter, Hammama wire of Atia of the Maghraoua tribe will make to the war with the chief of the tribe Banou Ifren the emir Abou - L Kemal. Several of the population of the Ifrinide tribe will remain in Andalusia because of the wars. Abou-l-Kamel will take Fez, but Hammama will save all the population by calling all the Zénétiennes tribes and Maghraouas to stop Abou-l-Kamel. This last will take refuge in Chala and died in 1037.

Almoravides will attack Bni Ifren, there will be thousands of died on the side of Ifrinides. The dynasty of Banou Ifren is completed by the rise of the Almoravides of the South. Almoravides will seize the power thereafter with the Maghreb lasting more than one century.

Banou Ifren left constructions (mosques, buildings) and propagated the knowledge among the populations.

Abou Soda

the sum of money Khalif Abou Soda of the tribe Banou Ifren fought the Hilaliens, according to Ibn Khaldoun. And he will be decapitated by them.

Mohamed el to saghir el Ifrini or Wafrani, large erudite and XVII century old historian between 1669 to 1744. He wrote several works of which Songhai Empire, Nozhet-elhâdi translated by Octave Houdas, Saadian translated by O. Houdas, etc

Mohamed el Saghir said: “the ignorance of the history harms and knowledge in is useful, declared it; it is an error to consider it, as it was done, like a science without utility and whose ignorance does not harm. Consider what arrived at our time, towards (J. - C. 1698-99). ”

the emir Abd El-Kader an Algerian symbol of the 19th century. He claimed to be tribe of Banou Ifrens

One finds of Banou Ifren in Algérie, with the Morocco, in Tunisia and Libya, in France, with the Canada, in Italy.

Berber Language of Banou Ifren

There remain only the tribes of Banou Ifren of Libya which could preserve their Berber language zénète.

The other tribes of Banou Ifren speak Zénète Dahra, Mzab, Ouarsenis, Ourgla, etc

Banou Ifren of the Kabylie to Béjaia in vallé of Sommam speak Kabyle among it is tribe Has Yala, Has Ourtlen, Has Kheir, Oussin, etc

Banou Ifren of Gaous and Mostaganem and Tlemcen speak Arabic since the advent about Islam in the Maghreb, but before they spoke the tadziri and Zénète.

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