Salih ibn Tarif

Timeline

1. 749–793Tamasna · Casablanca-SettatAfter his father Tarif, Salih claimed revelation, declared himself the final Mahdi, and composed some 80 chapters of a 'Berber Quran' in Berber, blending Islamic, Jewish, and local religious elements, providing the Barghawata state with an ideology independent of Umayyad orthodoxy. Al-Bakri records that he claimed descent from Simeon.
2. 1001–1010Tamasna · MoroccoAfter Salih's death, his grandson Yunus publicly revealed his grandfather's revelations around 842; the Barghawata heretical faith became the state religion and endured for over two centuries. In the early eleventh century the kingdom still controlled the coast from Safi to Salé, coexisting with the Zirids, Maghrawa, and other powers, until it was finally destroyed by the Almoravid attacks of the 1050s; thus Salih's religious tradition remained active in Morocco's political landscape in 1001–1010.