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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See also
- Algerianism
- Barbary Coast
- Berber Jews
- Berber Spring
- Berberism
- Kabylism,
- Moors
- Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
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