Editing Djerid (section)

==Geography==
The region is characterised by bare pink hills with [[oasis|oases]] and several [[chott]]s (salt pans) such as [[Chott el Djerid]] in Tunisia.<ref name="tixit">{{Cite web|url=http://ar.tixik.com/jezero-chott-el-jerid-2365605.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110815164459/http://ar.tixik.com/jezero-chott-el-jerid-2365605.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-08-15 |title=البحيرة شط ايل الجريد - تونس |work=Tixik.com |accessdate=2011-05-23 }}</ref> Economically the area is important for [[phosphate]] mining. Major towns include [[Gafsa]] and [[Tozeur]].

It remains the principal center of [[Ibadi|Ibāḍism]] in North Africa, with remaining Ibāḍī communities on [[Djerba]] in [[Tunisia]], in the [[M'zab]] in [[Algeria]], and in Jabal [[Nafusa]] in [[Libya]]. In [[Middle Ages|medieval]] times, it often formed a politically separate entity under the control of Ibāḍī ''[[imam]]s''.