Buluggin ibn Ziri
| Buluggin ibn Ziri | |||||
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| Emir of Maghreb | |||||
A statue of Buluggin ibn Ziri on the heights of the Casbah of Algiers | |||||
| Reign | 2 October 972 – 25 May 984 | ||||
| Successor | Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin | ||||
| Born | Titteri region (present-day Algeria) | ||||
| Died | 25 May 984 in Sijilmasa or Ouarekcen | ||||
| Issue | Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin Hammad ibn Buluggin Ibrahim ibn Buluggin Yattufat ibn Buluggin | ||||
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| Dynasty | Zirids | ||||
| Father | Ziri ibn Manad | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
Buluggin ibn Ziri (often transliterated Bologhine; in full: ʾAbū al Futūḥ Sayf ad Dawlah Bulukīn ibn Zīrī ibn Manād aṣ Ṣanhājī; Arabic: أبو الفتوح سيف الدولة بلكين بن زيري بن مناد الصنهاجي; died 25 May 984) was the first leader (r. 972–984) of the Sanhaja Berber dynasty of Zirids to serve as viceroy of Ifriqiya under the Fatimid Caliphs, founding a dynasty that continued to rule the region after him.
Bologhine, a suburb in the city of Algiers, is named after him.