Common Name: | Kingdom of Koukou |
Conventional Long Name: | Sultanate of Kuku |
Status: | Kingdom |
Capital: | Kuku |
Year End: | [1] |
Flag Type: | Flags of the Kingdom of Kuku Left: Flag of Kuku (West of Kabylia) |
Image Map Size: | 220px |
Image Map Alt: | A map show the kingdom of kuku |
Image Map Caption: | Map of Kabyle Kingdoms and Algiers Regency |
Image Map2 Caption: | Algiers and Kabylia Map |
Title Leader: | Sultan |
Common Languages: | Kabyle |
Religion: | Islam |
Today: | Algeria |
The Kingdom of Kuku (Kingdom of Koukou) was a Kabyle Berber kingdom. It was established around 1515 CE and ruled by the Ath l-Qadi dynasty until 1632 or 1638 CE. Ahmed ou el Kadhi (Ou l-Qadi) is acknowledged as the founder.[2]
The Ath l-Qadi are generally accepted to have been from the Ath Ghoubri region and having a maraboutic lineage.[3] According to Laurent-Charles Féraud (1829–1888), the dynasty possessed parchments which attributed their genealogy to a certain Ammar ben Idris, hence relating them to the Sharifian Idrisids of Fez,[4] while Joseph Nil Robin associates them with a non-Sharifian Fassi ancestry.