Lamtuna

The Lamtuna were a powerful nomadic Berber tribe belonging to the Senhaja (also pronounced "Zenaga") inhabiting the western Sahara.^{[citation needed]}

During the eighth century the Lamtuna created a kingdom out of a confederation of Berber tribes, which they dominated until the early tenth century. The Lamtuna probably did not convert to Islam until the ninth century.^{[citation needed]} The Almoravid dynasty, the founders of a powerful empire that in the eleventh century extended over Morocco, Southern Iberia and western Algeria are from this tribe.^{[citation needed]}

The Banu Ghaniya, successors of this dynasty in Tripoli and the Nafusa mountains, originated from this tribe as well.

Lamtunas were known as the Mulathamin or Tagelmust; which mean the veiled ones in Arabic and Berber language respectively.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Sanhaja confederation
• Almoravids

External links

• Nebel A, Landau-Tasseron E, Filon D, Oppenheim A, Faerman M (June 2002). "Genetic evidence for the expansion of Arabian tribes into the Southern Levant and North Africa". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 70 (6): 1594–6. doi:10.1086/340669. PMC 379148. PMID 11992266. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0002-9297(07)60713-7.