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- ↑ Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. (1987). A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period. Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-0-521-33767-0.
- ↑ Fromherz, Allen. "The Making of the Maghrib: 600–1060 CE." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 28 Mar. 2018; Accessed 25 Mar. 2023. https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-321. “Their founder Idris bin 'Abdulla was allied with the Awraba, a Berber confederation from western Algeria.“
- 1 2 3 Lazarev, Grigori. "Quelques hypothèses sur les dynamiques de peuplement du Rif occidental." Critique économique 30 (2013): 65-97. “ P.149: “Cette confédération reprit, contre Hassan Ibn No'man, la lutte engagée par les Awraba, confédération de tribus guerrières cavalières (des cavaliers «<numides »?) qui, au moment de l'arrivée des Arabes, occupaient les régions du Zab et l'ouest de l'Awras” P.148: “Ce furent tout d'abord des composantes des grandes confédérations qui commandèrent les premières résistances à la conquête arabe, les Awraba, probablement originaires du Constantinois”
- ↑ Revue africaine: journal des travaux de la société historique algérienne. Kraus Reprint, 1968.
- ↑ L'Afrique française: bulletin mensuel du Comité de l'Afrique française et du Comité du Maroc. Siège du Comité, 1927. “les Aurebas notamment, tane, porteurs d'une vieille culture, dans une situation descendants authentiques des anciens Numides”
- ↑ Bosworth, Clifford Edmund. The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Supplement. Brill, 1980.
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