 By the mid-12th century, the Banu Sulaym drove the Banu Hilal from Ifriqiyah and forced them to move west and south.In the late 12th century, all of the Sulaym of Cyrenaica joined the cause of the Ayyubid "mamluk" Qaraqush and the Almoravid warlord Ali ibn Ishaq ibn Ghaniyah against the Almohad Caliphate.However, this alliance soon unfolded and the Sulaym bore the brunt of attacks by Qaraqush, particularly the Dabbab sub-tribe, whose leaders he massacred.