Al-Kahina (Arabic: الكاهنة, romanized: al-Kāhina, lit. 'the priestess'), also known as Dihya, was a Berber warrior-queen of the Aurès (a kingdom in present-day northeast Algeria) [1] and a religious and military leader who lived during the seventh century AD. Her legacy has been retold through the oral tradition since her lifetime.

2018年3月16日 · Kahina (7th century CE) was a Berber (Imazighen) warrior-queen and seer who led her people against the Arab Invasion of North Africa in the 7th century CE. She is also known as al-Kahina, Dihya al-Kahina, Dahlia, Daya, and Dahia-al-Kahina. Although she was finally defeated, her resistance later served as a model for other freedom fighters.

2024年8月25日 · By the late seventh century, the only thing standing between the Arab forces and the Atlantic Ocean was a Jewish warrior-queen known as the Kahina. This begs the question, how did Jews, and to a greater extent a Jewish woman, become so …

2019年12月3日 · Seventh-century North Africa would see the rise of a warrior queen named al-Kahina. Who was she and how was she able to wage a war against the Umayyad Caliphate? After their unification under the banner of Islam and the rule of the caliphs in Medina, the Arabs embarked on a series of spectacular conquests during the 7th and 8th centuries.

2021年8月14日 · Dihya, whose Arabic Al-Kahina name can be translated as 'the diviner," was believed to be capable of foreseeing the future. She was born in the 7th century in modern Algeria and ruled a free Berber state known as Numidia. There are many historical stories and legends about the Berber Queen Kahina who became a heroine in her country.

Al Kahina was a Jewess and a part of the ruling family of the Berber tribe, princess and eventually queen. Berber king Aksel was her father 2 and trainer. He was a freedom fighter of his tribes, himself the stuff of arguably accurate tales.

2021年3月22日 · Dihya, also known as Al-Kahina, was a Berber queen and religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim invasion of the Maghreb, also known as Numidia at the time. She was born in the early seventh century and died nearly end of the seventh century in present-day Algeria.

2022年11月28日 · Also known as, Kāhinah, al-Kahina, Dahlia, Daya, Dihya al-Kahina or Dahia-al-Kahina, this intriguing woman held influence within the Berber Confederacy in the Mauretania region of North Africa. In particular, her base of power was with the Jawāra tribe in the Aurès Mountain region.

Around the time of the capture of Carthage by the Arabs (695 ce), the normally pastoral Berber tribes of the Atlas Mountains of North Africa rallied under the leadership of Queen Kahina, a powerful black Jew known variously as Dahiyah Kahinah or …

2018年10月31日 · A female leader from a Berber or Amazigh tribe in North Africa, al-Kahina, has a long history going back 14 centuries. She supposedly led the North African resistance to the Arab-Islamic invasion of that region in the 7th century A.D. Al-Kahina is known over most of North Africa, mostly as a heroine, a woman who in today’s terms would be ...