 The Thaaliba were the descendants of Thaalab ben Ali ben Bakr ben Sahir (or Saqir or Suhair) son of the Maqil forefather.This group was less fortunate than their relatives as they gave up on nomadism and sedentarized in a region close to Algiers.They lived there for four centuries and were severely oppressed and defeated by the successive Berber kings and eventually lost major influence after suffering multiple heavy losses in the wars that opposed them to the Abdelwadid leader Yaghmurasan Ibn Zyan.