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Arghen(Hargha)

ⴰⵔⵖⴻⵏ / Arghen
Birth place of Ibn tumart

Arghen (Tamazight: Arɣen / ⴰⵔⵖⴻⵏ, Arabic: هرغة) or Hargha the Arabic form of its name (the prosthetic hāʾ is general in Arabic transcriptions of the names of Berber tribes, and the suffix a [< at] in the plural has been substituted for the -ən of the Berber plural), the tribe to which Ibn Tūmart belonged.

This latter is located in the Anti-Atlas south-east of Taroudant, bordered to the south by the Ida Ou Nadif and Ida Ou Zeddoute tribes, to the east by Indaouzal, to the north by Lamnabha, and to the west by Ida Ou Finis.

History

Before the appearance of Ibn Tūmart, the Hargha were a branch of the main confederation of the Masmuda, from among whom seven fractions in all adopted the Mahdi's cause immediately after his return to the Atlas Mountains.

^<<Hargha, Hintata, Tinmel, Gedmiwa, Genfissa, Urika, Hazraga^>>

E. Lévi-Provençal records among the Hargha a ribât which Ibn Tūmart had built, and gives its name as Iguiliz(means "mountain peak" in Tamazight), it was known as place of pilgrimage by Ibn Tūmart's followers during Almohad rule.

After the recognition of Ibn Tūmart by the Hargha, the Almoravids tried to seize the Mahdi while he was in Igiliz, by taking the tribe from the rear, but their attempt failed (1122), After a second attempt by the Almoravids against igiliz in 1123, Ibn Tūmart finally abandoned his ribât in order to settle at Tinmel which he made the capital bastion of his movement circa 1124. hence Igiliz was no more than a place of pilgrimage which the Almohad caliphs visited from time to time.

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