Harka (Maghreb)

The term harka (Arabic: حركة) in Maghrebi history refers to a military campaign with military, political, or financial (tax-collecting) goals, often a punitive expedition against insurgents.[1]

Historically, the term refers to military campaigns carried out by the sultans of Morocco or other high-ranking officials, such as qaids, with the goal of collecting taxes or pacifying or suppressing revolting regions or tribes (as in Bled es-Siba).[2]

Walter Burton Harris described a harka in the time of Sultan Abdelaziz in Morocco That Was, although he confused it with the word harqa (حرقة) related to burning.[3]

See also
  • Mahalla 

References
  1. "HARKA : Définition de HARKA". cnrtl.fr. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  2. الهاني, كريم (2019-04-16). ""المخزن"… كيف كان يقر سلطته على المغرب؟ وكيف كان يوازن العلاقة بين السلطان والرعايا؟ (الجزء الثاني)". Marayana - مرايانا (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  3. Harris, Walter (1921). Morocco That Was. Edinburgh. p. 2. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t13n22f3d.
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