Massacre by the Zenata of Tamim ibn Ziri

The city of Fès passed that year from the Maghrāwa to the Zénètes of Tamīm ibn Zīrī, and the capture was accompanied by the sacking of the Jewish quarter.

The Moroccan chronicles report that the men were killed, the women and children reduced to captivity, and the houses given over to pillage; the survivors were not ransomed or freed until several months later, when the city changed hands once again. The community of Fès, one of the oldest in the Maghreb — that of Judah ibn Quraysh and of Dunash ben Labrat — took a generation to reconstitute itself.

It did so well enough that in the following century Fès again became a center of learning, where Isaac Alfassi taught before his departure for Lucena, and where Maïmonide spent time in his youth.