| LC control no. | nr 92033192 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kāhina, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century |
| Variant(s) | Dāhiya, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Dahyā, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Dāmiya, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Damya, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Dehiyah el Kahinah, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Dihya, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Kahena, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century Kāhina, Queen of the Berbers, 7th cent. Yehudit ha-Kohenet, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century |
| Beginning date | 06 |
| Found in | Slouschz, N. Dehiyah el Kahinah (Yehudit ha-Kohenet), 1933: text (Jewish Berber queen who led the resistance against the Arab invasion of North Africa) LC in RLIN, 9-11-92 (hdg.: Kāhina, queen of the Berbers, 7th cent.) Encycl. of Islam, New ed. (al-Kāhina ("the Sorceress"); the guiding spirit of Berber resistance to the Arab invasion; referred to by Ibn Khaldūn as Dihya, Dahyā, Dāhiya, Damya, Dāmiya or Daḥya; Christian, of the Djarāwa tribe; queen of the Aurès) Enc. Jud., 1972 (Kāhina; surname given by the Arabs to the Berber queen of the Aurès, SE Algeria, of the Jerawa tribe which converted to Judaism, fought against the Arab invasion, died 698 or 702) Ibn Khaldūn. Histoire des Berbères ..., tome 4, 1956: (index entry is Kahena) |
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