Exiles in the Sahara

The Chebka, that part of the Sahara into which twelve-year-old Hassoun and his people fled, is now known as the M'Zab, and the people living there, direct descendants of the Ibadites, are usually called Mozabites. This story tells of the founding in the the eleventh century of El-Ateuf, the first Mozabite settlement after their exile in the desert within a desert.