Arabic word derived from the Latin "Africa". The geographical limits of the area known as Ifriqiya are somewhat blurred, but originally the term applied to the territory between Tangier and Tripoli.

if ree ki uh] The Arabic term for eastern North Africa. (p. 334)

In medieval history, Ifriqiya or Ifriqiyah (Arabic: إفريقية) was the area comprising the coastal regions of what are today western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria. This area included what had been the Roman province of Africa.