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Arab migration to the Maghreb first started in the 7th century with the Arab conquest of the Maghreb.This first started in 647 under the Rashidun Caliphate, when Abdallah ibn Sa'd led the invasion with 20,000 soldiers from Medina in the Arabian Peninsula, swiftly taking over Tripolitania and then defeating a much larger Byzantine army at the Battle of Sufetula in the same year, forcing the new ...
Arabs at a cafe in Algiers, 1899.. Maghrebi Arabs (Arabic: العرب المغاربة, romanized: al-‘Arab al-Maghāriba) or North African Arabs (Arabic: عرب شمال أفريقيا, romanized: ‘Arab Shamāl Ifrīqiyā) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa whose ethnic identity is Arab, whose native language is Arabic and trace their ancestry to the tribes of the ...
The J-M267 chromosome pool in the Maghreb is derived not only from early Neolithic dispersions but to a much greater extent from recent expansions of Arab tribes from the Arabian Peninsula, during which both southern Qahtanite and northern Adnanite Arabs added to the heterogenous Maghrebi ethnic melting pot. [64]
Maghrebis or Maghrebians (Arabic: المغاربيون, romanized: al-Māghāribiyyun) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa. [13] It is a modern Arabic term meaning "Westerners", denoting their location in the western part of the Arab world. Maghrebis are predominantly of Arab and Berber origins.
The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: . Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm and the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.
Although the first Arab migration to the Maghreb in the 7th century during the first conquests was essentially composed of settled Arab noble clans in smaller numbers, the second wave was much more substantial in that it was mainly composed of nomadic tribes. Genealogy of the Zughba branch of the Banu Hilal listed by Georges Marçais, 1913.
The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb (Arabic: فَتْحُ اَلْمَغْرِب, romanized: Fath al-Maghrib, lit. 'Conquest of the West') or Arab conquest of North Africa by the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates commenced in 647 and concluded in 709, when the Byzantine Empire lost its last remaining strongholds to Caliph Al-Walid I.
The Semitic-speaking presence in the Maghreb is mainly due to the migratory movements of Phoenicians in the 3rd century BC and large scale migrations of Arab Bedouin tribes in the 11th century AD such as Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym, as well as other waves that occurred during the Arab migrations to the Maghreb (c. 7th century – 17th century ...