The Ghomara (, Ighmaren) are a Berber tribal confederation that inhabit northern Morocco. They live in the western Rif, in the area of Chefchaouen and Tetouan.
While most have shifted to speaking Arabic, a minority continue to speak the Berber Ghomara language.. Another 10th-century classic, Al-Muqadassi, also distinguishes between Sus al-Adna, the “near” Sous, with Fez as its capital and encompassing a “Balad Ghumar”.
It is therefore not surprising that the land of Ghomara was occupied by the “People of Sous” (Ahl Sus); these were not southern invaders but simply neighbors attracted by the resources and refuge offered by the region. These populations belonged to the Masmouda group, which at that time seemed to have spread throughout Atlantic Morocco
Further east, as early as the 8th century, the land of Nekkour, which stretched to the Ghomara Sanhadjian domains, had been conquered, according to tradition, by Saïd ben Idris ben Saleh. Defeated, the Rif Berbers embraced Islam, which was preached to them by Saleh ibn Mansour, an Arab of Himyarite origin. Like so many other Maghrebis, the Ghomara and the Sanhadja soon renounced the new religion; they drove out Saleh and took as their leader an adventurer from Nefza, Dawoud er-Rondi. El-Bekri tells us that, shortly afterwards, they converted again, put Dawoud to death and recalled Saleh, whose nephew and successor, Saïd ibn Idris, founded Nekour. This city developed rapidly thanks to its relations with the Iberian Peninsula, but its renown attracted a raid by barbarians (Normans), who plundered it in 859. Saïd's long reign was further troubled by the revolt of a group of Berbers commanded by a certain Seggen.