Buluggin ibn Ziri

Names
	Abu'l-Futuh Sayf al-Dawla Buluggin ibn Ziri ibn Manad al-Sanhaji

Buluggin ibn Ziri
Buluggin ibn Ziri
Emir of Maghreb
	A statue of Buluggin ibn Ziri on the heights of the Casbah of Algiers
Reign	972 – 984
Successor	Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin
Born	Titteri region (present-day Algeria)
Died	May 984 in Sijilmasa or Ouarekcen
Names
Names
	Abu'l-Futuh Sayf al-Dawla Buluggin ibn Ziri ibn Manad al-Sanhaji
Dynasty	Zirids
Father	Ziri ibn Manad
Religion	Islam

Buluggin ibn Ziri, often transliterated Bologhine, in full ʾAbū al Futūḥ Sayf ad Dawlah Bulukīn ibn Zīrī ibn Manād aṣ Ṣanhājī (Arabic: أبو الفتوح سيف الدولة بلكين بن زيري بن مناد الصنهاجي; died 984) was the first leader (r. 972–984) of the Sanhaja Berber dynasty of Zirids to serve as viceroy of Ifriqiya under the Fatimid Caliphs, founding a dynasty that continued to rule the region after him.^[3]^[4]

Bologhine, a suburb in the city of Algiers, is named after him.

^ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
^ Petite histoire de la Tunisie / Par Mlle L. Métivier ; avec une introduction de M. d'Estournelles de Constant. 1910.
^ Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1996). The New Islamic Dynasties. Columbia University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-231-10714-3.
^ Jiwa, Shainool (2017). The Fatimids: 1 - The Rise of a Muslim Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-78673-174-6.

[AkyeampongGates2012-1] Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.

[2] Petite histoire de la Tunisie / Par Mlle L. Métivier ; avec une introduction de M. d'Estournelles de Constant. 1910.

[3] Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1996). The New Islamic Dynasties. Columbia University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-231-10714-3.

[4] Jiwa, Shainool (2017). The Fatimids: 1 - The Rise of a Muslim Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-78673-174-6.

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