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Jaafar Ben el Haj Soulami
Although al-Andalus was historically the territory of the Umayyads par excellence, certain branches of the Alid families (enemies of the Umayyads) settled there, especially in the 4th / 10th century. Over the centuries, other non-Idrisid branches also settled in al-Andalus, where the presence of these ašrāf branches was noted until the end of the Middle Ages. With the forced Christianization of all Andalusians from around 1500 in the Kingdom of Granada, and from 1523 in the Kingdom of Valencia, these branches suffered the systematic loss of family documents justifying their membership of the Prophet’s family, especially with the ransacking of Arab heritage papers. Forced into exile in 1609, in a mass exodus ordered by the Hispanic monarchy, the Andalusians found themselves exiled in the Muslim countries of North Africa, bereft of any written genealogical justification. Oral tradition was all that remained to justify their claim. They claimed the noble genealogy of the Prophet, but often to no avail, as the indigenous North African Muslims generally denied them this claim for lack of convincing justification.
