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During the first centuries of their history, Kabyles used the Libyco-Berber writing system (ancestor of the modern Tifinagh). Since the beginning of the 19th century, and under French influence, Kabyle intellectuals began to use the Latin script. It is the basis for the modern Berber Latin alphabet.
Berbers are not an entirely homogeneous ethnicity, and they include a range of societies, ancestries, and lifestyles. The unifying forces for the Berber people may be their shared language or a collective identification with Berber heritage and history. As a legacy of the spread of Islam, the Berbers are now mostly Sunni Muslim.
Maysar al-Matghari (Berber: Maysar Amteghri or Maysar Amdeghri, Arabic: ميسرة المطغري; sometimes rendered Maisar or Meicer; in older Arab sources, bitterly called: al-Ḥaqir ('the ignoble'); died in September/October 740) was a Berber rebel leader and original architect of the Great Berber Revolt that erupted in 739-743 against the Umayyad Muslim empire.
Thereafter Berbers lived as an independent people in North Africa, including the Tunisian region. On the most distant prehistoric epochs, the scattered evidence sheds a rather dim light. Also obscure is the subsequent "pre-Berber" situation, which later evolved into the incidents of Berber origins and early development.
Pages in category "Berber history" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abeïbara massacres;
The Berber flag adopted by the World Amazigh Congress in 1998 Demonstration of Kabyles in Paris, April 2016. Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement, that started mainly in Kabylia and Morocco during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth and was largely driven by colonial capitalism and France's divide and conquer policy. [1]
Kitab al-Ibar began as a history of the Berbers and expanded to a universal history in seven books. [4] [5] Book 1; Al-Muqaddimah ('The Introduction'), a socio-economic-geographical universal history of empires, and the best known of his works. [6] Books 2-5; World History up to the author's own time. Books 6-7; Historiography of the Berbers ...
Berber civilization was already at a stage in which agriculture, manufacturing, trade, and political organization supported several states. Trade links between Carthage and the Berbers in the interior grew, but territorial expansion also resulted in the enslavement or military recruitment of some Berbers and in the extraction of tribute from ...