Kusaila
Berber leader from the Aures · Lived 640 to 688 · aged 48
Kusaila, also known as Aksel, was a 7th-century Berber Christian ruler of the kingdom of Altava and leader of the Awraba tribe, a Christianised sedentary Berber tribe of the Aures and possibly Christian king of the Sanhaja.
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Under his rule his domain stretched from Volubilis in the west to the Aurès in the east and later Kairouan and the interior of Ifriqiya. Kusaila is mostly known for leading Berber forces against the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 680s. In 683, he won a major victory at the Battle of Vescera, where the Umayyad commander Uqba ibn Nafi was killed. Kusaila was later defeated and killed at the Battle of Mamma in 688.