Mascara

Mascara owes its name to the Islamic period. El mascara was the name of military encampments. Mascara is a city of Zenata tribes and mainly the home of Beni Rached (also known under the name of Hashem), a Zenata Berber tribe. By the tenth century, the Banu Ifren based Ifgan or Fekkan southwest of Mascara after destroying the city of Oran in the war against the Fatimids. The Maghraoua Mascara occupy the same time.
Ibn Khaldun stayed south of Mascara in the castle belonging to Ibn Selama. It is in these places that Ibn Khaldun starts writing his book El Mokadema (The Prolegomena).