Hafsids[a] | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1229–1574 | |||||||||||||||||
 Realm of the Hafsid dynasty in 1400 (orange) | |||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Tunis | ||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic, Berber | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam (Sunni, Ibadi), Christianity (Roman Catholic), Judaism | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||||||||||
• 1229–1249 | Abu Zakariya | ||||||||||||||||
• 1574 | Muhammad VI | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
• Established | 1229 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1535 | |||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1574 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||||||||||
The Hafsids (Arabic: الحفصيون al-Ḥafṣiyūn) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descent[1] who ruled Ifriqiya (modern day Tunisia, western Libya, and eastern Algeria) from 1229 to 1574.
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- ^ C. Magbaily Fyle, Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa, (University Press of America, 1999), 84.