Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam founds the Rustamid imamate at Tahert in the central Maghreb, an Ibadi state that endures for over a century and makes Tahert a center of Ibadi learning and trans-Saharan trade.
Tagged: Ibadi Islam Muslim
The Event
- Date
- 777 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Tahert; today Tiaret, Algeria
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Ibadi Islam
- Key figures
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam
Primary Sources
- Ibn al-Saghir, Chronicle of the Rustamid imams
Secondary Sources
- Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2016)
- Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (Faber, 1991)
Provenance: HIST-0220; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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