ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Rustam (d. probably in 168/784–5) was the founder of the Ibāḍī Rustamid dynasty (r. c.161–296/778–909), which was centred in Tāhart, in present-day western Algeria. He was of Persian origin and supposedly a descendant of the famous Rustam, who commanded the Per…
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Ibn al-Ṣaghīr was the author of Akhbār al-aʾimma l-Rustumiyyīn , a chronicle on the Rustamid imāms of Tāhart, composed after 294/907. Except for Ibn Sallām’s Kitāb fīhi badʾ al-Islām (late third/ninth century), it is the earliest text on the history of North African Ibāḍīs. Ibn …
Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ al-Irjānī and his son Abū Zakariyyāʾ b. Abī Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ al-Irjānī were chiefs of the al-Irjānī family of Ibāḍī notables from Irjān (or Arjān), in the Jabal Nafūsa (Nafūsa Mountains, in northwestern modern-day Libya), who became famous as ḥākim s (judges…
Maqrīn b. Muḥammad al-Bughṭūrī (b. second half of the sixth/twelfth century, d. first half of the seventh/thirteenth century) was a prominent scholar who belonged to a famous learned Ibāḍī family from Bughṭūra, in the western part of Jabal Nafūsa, in modern-day Libya. He studied…
