Zirids of Ifriqiya break with Fatimids
1048
The Berber ruler al-Mu'izz ibn Badis formally shifted his allegiance from the Shia Fatimids of Cairo back to the Sunni Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, a provocation that brought severe retaliation from Cairo in the form of releasing the Banu Hilal Arab tribes to invade North Africa. The ensuing devastation transformed the Maghreb's demographics permanently, replacing Berber farmers with Arab pastoralists across vast stretches of countryside.
In context
Also in 1048 (3 other events on record)
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- Anawrahta receives Theravada scriptures from Mon kingdom · Southeast Asia · Religion
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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