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, name of a large Berber people mentioned as early as the middle of the 3rd/9th century in the geographical work of Ibn K̲h̲urradād̲h̲bih as being among the thirty most important Berber tribes of this period. According to the majority of Berber genealogists cited by Ibn K̲h̲aldūn (including Sābiḳ al-Maṭmāṭī), the Maṭmāṭa, who were brothers of the Maṭg̲h̲ara, Ṣadīna, Malzūza, Madyūna and Lamāya, belonged to the great Berber family of the Butr; they constituted, with the above-mentioned tribes, th…

(also Madyūna or Medyūna ), an important Berber tribe, belonging to the major branch of Butr and descended from the family of Fāṭin, son of Tamzīt (or Tamṣīt), son of Ḍarīs, son of Zaḥīk (Zad̲j̲īk), son of Mādg̲h̲is al-Abtar. According to Ibn ʿIdhārī, Madyūna was said to be the son of Tamzīt, son of Ḍarī and brother of Maṭmāṭa, Mad̲h̲g̲h̲ara, Ṣadīna, Mag̲h̲īla and Malzūza. According to Ibn Ḵh̲aldūn, the Midyūna (Medyūna) were related to the Maṭg̲h̲ara, Ṣadīna, Lamāya, Kūmiya, Mag̲h̲īla, Dūna, Maṭmaṭa, Malzūza, Kas̲h̲āna (Kas̲h̲āta) and Ḍarīsa. Little is known of the history of the…

, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Nāṣir b. Miyāl b. Yūsuf , noted Ibāḍī-Wahbī historian, traditionist and biographer. He was descended from Yūsuf al-Lawātī, the vizier of al-Aflah b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, the third Ibāḍī imām of the Rustamid dynasty (208-50/823-71). According to the biographical notices about him given in the works of al-Dardiīnī and al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲ī, he was born in the first half of the 5th/11th century in the province of Barḳa (Cyrenaica). His nisba indicates that he was from the Berber tribe of the Lawāta [ q.v.], of which several sections were adherents of the…

, an important Berber ethnic group belonging to the family of Butr and whose eponymous ancestor was Lawā the Young, son of Lawā the Old. They are distant descendants of the Lebu (Lebou) of the Egyptian documents of the 13th century B.C., of the Lubīm or Lehabīm of the Bible, the Libues (Libyans) of the ancient Greeks, of the Laguantan of Corippus and the Leuathae of Procopius (6th century A.D.). It is probable that the Lebu (Lebou) of the Egyptians lived on the Mediterranean coast of Africa, bet…

[English edition] تمثّل الإباضيّة أحد الفروع الرئيسية للخوارج [انظره]، الذين نجد ممثّليهم اليوم في عُمان وشرق إفريقيا وليبيا (جبل نفوسة وزواغة)، وفي جنوب الجزائر (ورقلة ومزاب). ويستمد المذهب اسمه من اسم أحد مؤسّسيه وهو عبد الله بن إباض المُرّي التميمي. والشكل الذي جرت العادة باستعماله هو: أباضية؛ وهذا صحيح بالنسبة إلى شمال إفريقيا فقط (مثلاً في جبل نفوسة، راجع، أ. دي موتيلنسكي، جبل نفوسة، باريس 1898–9، ص 41 وفي أماكن مختلفة)، حيث استعملها، في القرن التاسع هـ/الخامس عشر م، الكاتب الإباضي البرّادي (ا…