The 1033 Fez massacre was an event where, following their conquest of the city from the
Maghrawa tribe, the forces of
Abu'l Kamal Tamim,[1] chief of the
Banu Ifran tribe, perpetrated a massacre of
Jews in Fez in an anti-Jewish pogrom.
The city of
Fez in
Morocco had been contested between the
ZenataBerber tribes of
Miknasa,
Maghrawa and Banu Ifran for the previous half century, in the aftermath of the fall of the
Idrisid dynasty.[1] In 1033, according to
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), Abu'l Kamal Tamim, the Banu Ifran chief, was lord of
Salé on the
Atlantic coast, while
Fez was under the control of Hammama, chief of the Maghrawa.[2]
Tamim's forces killed over six thousand Jews, appropriated their belongings, and captured the Jewish women of the city.[3][4][5][6] The killings took place in the month of
Jumaada al-Akhir 424
AH (May–June 1033
AD).[3] The killings have been called a "
pogrom" by some modern writers.[7][8]
After fleeing east to
Oujda and rallying the Maghrawa forces, Hammama recaptured Fez in 1037–1038, forcing Tamim to flee to
Salé.[2]