Naceur Ait Mokran

Naceur Ait Mokran
Amokrane
2nd Amokrane of the Ait Abbas
Reign1596–1600
PredecessorAhmed II
SuccessorBetka Ait Mokran
Died1600 (1601)
Issue
Kabyle nameNaṣer At Meqqran
DynastyAit Mokran
FatherAhmed II
ReligionSuffism
Military career
Conflicts
  • Algiers (1598)

Naceur Ait Mokran (Kabyle: Naṣer At Meqqran) was an Amokrane or the Kingdom of Ait Abbas.[1]

Biography

He was the son of Ahmed II Ait Mokran and father of Betka Ait Mokran, his successor, as well as Mohand Ait Mokran and Bou Temzine Ait Mokran.[1]

Naceur focused on the religious aspect of the kingdom and surrounded himself with religious, letting the State affairs fall into disrepair which caused the discontent of the army leaders and traders of the Aït Abbas who assassinated him.[2]

While the kingdom extended its control to the Zibans, Ouargla and Tuggurt, Naceur abandoned these regions, letting them under the control of the Douaouidas Berber tribes.

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 Rinn, Louis (1897). Histoire de l'insurrection de 1871 en Algérie. Librairie Adolphe Jourdan. p. 54.
  2. ↑ Féraud 1872, p. 236