Berbers and Islam  

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The Berbers (autonym: Imazighen) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Maghreb region of North Africa. Following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, most Berber tribes eventually became Muslims, and today Arab-Berber (of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry) and Arabized Berbers (Berbers who have assimilated into the Arab population). Presently, about one-sixth of the population of Maghreb speaks one of the Berber languages (mostly in Algeria and Morocco), but most of them also speak some form of Arabic.

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