Harka (Maghrebi Arabic: ) in Maghrebi history refers to a military campaign with military, political, or financial (tax-collecting) goals, often a punitive expedition against insurgents.
In the history of Morocco, harka refers to military campaigns carried out by the sultans of Morocco or other high-ranking officials, such as qaids, with the goal of collecting taxes or pacifying or suppressing revolting regions or tribes (as in Bled es-Siba). Walter Burton Harris described a harka in the time of Sultan Abdelaziz in Morocco That Was, although he confused it with the word harqa () related to burning.
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References Afif, "Les harka hassaniennes d'aprés l'oeuvre d'A Ibn Zaydan" (1980– 1981) 19 Hesperis-Tamuda 153 El Moudden, "Etat et Société rurale à travers la harka au Maroc du XIXe siècle" (1983) 8 The Maghreb Review 141 Miller. A History of Modern Morocco. p 36. William Spencer, "The Urban World of Morocco" (1970) 19(1) Landscape 36 at 39 (No 1, Winter 1970, published July 1971)