Harka (Maghreb)

Harka in Maghrebi history refers to a military campaign with military, political, or financial 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. 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.