The Banu Isam were a Muslim

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 Berber

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 dynasty that ruled Ceuta

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, Spain

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, for four generations. The town had been destroyed in a Kharijite rebellion, and was lying waste; sometime in the middle of the ninth century, Mâjakas, chief of the Majkasa tribe, resettled it and founded a dynasty that ruled the town until the Umayyad

Umayyad

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s took it over in 931

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Its kings were:

• Mâjakas
• `Isâm, son of Mâjakas
• Majîr, son of `Isâm
• Ridâ, son of `Isâm (?-931
  931
  Year 931 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Asia :* Mardavij captured and killed Asfar and in rapid succession conquered Hamadan, Dinavar and Isfahan from the governors of the caliph...
  
  ), who paid allegiance to the Idrisid
  Idrisid
  The Idrisids were a Zaydi-Shia dynasty of Arab origins in Morocco, ruling from 788 to 985, named after its first leader, Idriss I.-History:...
  
  s, but surrendered the city to the Umayyad
  Umayyad
  The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. It was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty, whose name derives from Umayya ibn Abd Shams, the great-grandfather of the first Umayyad caliph. Although the Umayyad family originally came from the...
  
  s when the Idrisid
  Idrisid
  The Idrisids were a Zaydi-Shia dynasty of Arab origins in Morocco, ruling from 788 to 985, named after its first leader, Idriss I.-History:...
  
  capital fell.