Editing Sous (section)

== History ==
Medieval Arab geographers generally divided the Sous region into two distinct sub-regions: '''''as-Sūs al-Aqṣā''''' ({{Lang|ar|السوس الأقصى}} 'the far Sus'), or , and '''''as-Sūs al-Adnā''''' ({{Lang|ar|السوس الأدنى}} 'the near Sus').<ref name="Brill">{{cite book |last1=Lévi Provençal |first1=E. |title=Brill Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition |date=1913–1936 |isbn=978-9004082656 |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-1/al-sus-al-aksa-SIM_5549 |access-date=8 March 2022 |format=Web |chapter=al-Sūs al-Aḳṣā}}</ref><ref name="Mohamed 2012">{{cite book |last1=Mohamed |first1=Mohamed Hassan |title=Between Caravan and Sultan: The Bayruk of Southern Morocco: A Study in History and Identity |date=2012 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, Boston |isbn=978-9004183827 |pages=19–20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbQyAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22sus+al-aqsa%22&pg=PA110 |access-date=8 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="Coppée 1881">{{cite book |last1=Coppée |first1=Henry |title=History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors: With a Sketch of the Civilization which They Achieved, and Imparted to Europe, Volume 1 |date=1881 |publisher=Little, Brown, & Company |location=Boston |pages=68, 190, 351 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtcPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Sus+al-Aksa%22&pg=PA68 |access-date=8 March 2022}}</ref> ''Sus al-Aqsa'' consisted of the southern/western part, and ''Sus al-Adna'' consisted of the northern/eastern part; however, there were never any precise boundaries between the two.<ref name="Coppée 1881"/> The capital of the Sous was at [[Igli, Morocco|Igli]].<ref name="Jenkins 1979">{{cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=R. G. |editor1-last=Willis |editor1-first=John Ralph |title=Studies in West African Islamic History: Volume 1: The Cultivators of Islam, Volume 2: The Evolution of Islamic Institutions & Volume 3: The Growth of Arabic Literature |date=1979 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon |isbn= |pages=81–3 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rD0sBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22sus+al-aqsa%22&pg=PA81 |access-date=8 March 2022 |chapter='Abd Allāh b. Yāsīn and the Almoravids}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> There was also a [[ribat]] at [[Massa, Morocco|Massa]] near the Atlantic coast.<ref name="Jenkins 1979"/>

Around 683, [[Uqba ibn Nafi]] conquered the Sous region, but after his death in 688 his conquests in Morocco slipped out of Muslim control.<ref name="Jenkins 1979"/> The Sous was reconquered around 20 years later by [[Musa ibn Nusayr]], who began the spread of Islam among the local population.<ref name="Jenkins 1979"/>