Char Bouba war

Char Bouba war
Part of the General Crisis
Date1644-1677
Location
Present-day Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Senegal
Result
Belligerents
  • Sanhadja Berber tribes
  • Lamtuna
  • Torodbe
    		•
  • Maqil Arab tribes
  • Beni Hassan
  • Traditional Wolof aristocracy
    • Commanders and leaders
    Nasr ad-Din †
    al-Amin
    Uthman †
    Munir ad-Din    		 Sidi Ibrahim Al Aroussi
    Shanan Al Aroussi
    Sidi Tounsi Al Aroussi

    The Char Bouba war (variously transliterated as Sharr Bubba, Shar Buba), also known as the Mauritanian Thirty Years' War[1] or the Marabout War,[2] took place between 1644 and 1677 in the tribal areas of what is today Mauritania and Western Sahara as well as in the Senegal river valley.[3] It was fought between the Sanhadja Berber tribes and Muslim populations in the river valley, led by Lamtuna Imam Nasr ad-Din, on one hand; and the Maqil Arab immigrant tribes, foremost of which was the Beni Hassan, as well as the traditional aristocracies of the Wolof states on the other, supported by the French.[4][5]

    The war was led by Sidi Ibrahim Al Aroussi, son of the famous Cheikh Sidi Ahmed Al Aroussi (died in 1593, near to Smara, in Western Sahara). Al Aroussi, with his two sons Shanan Al Aroussi and Sidi Tounsi Al Aroussi, led a powerful force of the Hassani tribe, the Aroussi Army, to conquer the Berber Imarat in current Mauritania and gain access to Bilad as-Sudan ("the Land of the Blacks", in Senegal and Mali).

    1. ^ Robert Earl Handloff (1990). Mauritania: a country study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 11. ISBN 9780160197970.
    2. ^ Barry 1998, pp. 50.
    3. ^ Peter Cooper Mancall (2007). The Atlantic World and Virginia: 1550 – 1624. UNC Press Books. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-0-8078-3159-5. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
    4. ^ "Mauritania – Arab Invasions". Library of Congress Country Studies. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
    5. ^ Barry 1998, pp. 51.