Islam in North Africa

Gestart door Lezer, 10/09/2006 om 23:01:12

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The islam is absolutely the religion that played the crucial roles in North Africa. The Umayyads who attacked the Berber territories seemed to be interested in the islamization of North Africa rather than the islamization of berbers. Although the Umayyads could firstly penetrate the Berber territories, the Berbers who lived in tribal societies revolted military and ideologic against the Arab-islamic expansion. Uqba ibn Nafi who reached the Atlantic Ocean has been killed by a Berber prince called Ksila. The Arabs revenged his death and killed accordingly the Berber prince Ksila. After killing Ksila, Dihya (also known as the Kahina) led the Berbers successfully during a strong and long war against the moslims until she has been betrayed by an Arab captive, and she has been accordingly killed by the moslims.

After more than a half centruy of resistence the Arabs could become the factual masters in North Africa. But the Berbers who were military defeated, kept an ideologic restistence in several regions during different periods. The Berbers created an own islam-based religion [maybe with a pre-islamic influence] in a kingdom called Barghwata that lived about four  centuries before it has been destroyed by another arising islamic-Berber empire called the Almoravids.

Like the Berbers were conquered by the name of the islam, the Berbers spread their first empires by the name of the islam. The Almoravids (who were Tuareg Berbers) were not islamized by the swords of the Arabs, but they were firstly fire worshipers who converted to islam, after the visit of their tribal leader Abd-Allah ibn Yasin to Mekka, and began successfully to spread what they considered to be the real islam.

The Almohad dynasty was spiritually founded by a Berber preacher who claimed to be the Imam Mahdi like as he claimed to have an Arab origin. The Arab origin was, in fact, important to the Berbers who had politic ambitions, because the caliphate is restriked to the Kuraichic Arabs in the islam, hence many Berber tribes and dynasties claimed to have Arab origins, and that was one of the strongest motivations for the Arabization of North Africa.

Although the Islam's penetration was no less bloody than the Roman one, the Berbers adopted finally the islam and considered it as their holly religion. But the influence of some pre-islamic beliefs are still traceable in their rural islam like the cult of Anzar [the rain] and the tendences to ask the blesses from the deaths who are considered as saints, although the islam condamn that. Even some scholars believe that the so-called [[Hand of Fatima]] that is used by the North Africans to protect themselves from the evil was originally the remain of Tanit's beliefs, and that the legendary woman Aisha Qandisha is factually the remains of the Semitic goddess Ashera.

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