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{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Ikjan
| native_name              = ايكجان ([[Arabic]])<br>ⵉⴽⵊⴰⵏ ([[Berber languages|Berber]])
| settlement_type          = [[Town]]
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|Algeria}}
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_type1        = [[Provinces of Algeria|Province]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Sétif Province]]
| coordinates              = {{coord|36|28|12|N|5|39|25|E}}
| pushpin_map              = Algeria
| mapsize                  = 300
| map_caption              = Location in [[Algeria]]
}}
'''Ikjan''' ({{Langx|ar|ايكجان}}, {{Langx|ber|ⵉⴽⵊⴰⵏ}}) is a former town near the present-day town of [[Beni Aziz]] in [[Algeria]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Camps|first=G.|date=2001-10-01|title=Ikjan|url=https://journals.openedition.org/encyclopedieberbere/1557?lang=en|journal=[[Encyclopédie berbère]]|language=fr|issue=24|pages=3683–3684|doi=10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1557|issn=1015-7344|doi-access=free}}</ref> Between 902 and 909 it served as the base and capital of the [[Kutama]] [[Berbers]] led by the ''[[Da'i|dā'ī]]'' (missionary) [[Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i]], who had founded an [[Isma'ilism|Isma'ili]] [[Shia Islam|Shi'a]] state in the region on behalf of the [[Fatimid dynasty|Fatimid]] cause. This new movement rose in opposition to the [[Aghlabids|Aghlabid dynasty]], which ruled the region of [[Ifriqiya]] formally on behalf of the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid Caliphs]].<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=Halm |first=Heinz |title=The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids |publisher=Brill |year=1996 |isbn=9004100563 |location= |pages=102–121 |language=en |translator-last=Bonner |translator-first=Michael}}</ref> The site of Ikjan was considered impregnable.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Julien |first=Charles André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtEZAAAAMAAJ&q=ikjan+impregnable |title=History of North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco: From the Arab Conquest to 1830 |date=1970 |publisher=Praeger |isbn=978-0-7100-6614-5 |pages=53 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In 909 Abu Abdallah and the Kutama armies finally overthrew the Aghlabids and set themselves up in Raqqada, laying the foundations for the [[Fatimid Caliphate]], which was formally established with the enthronement of the first caliph, [[Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah|Abd Allah al-Mahdi]], later that year.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
== References ==
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[[Category:Former populated places in Algeria]]
[[Category:History of Ismailism]]
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