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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] The Sahrawi are politically a branch of the Hassaniya speaking Arab Mauritanians that descend from the mixture of Berbers and Arabs in Mauritania. There was no such thing as a Sahrawi when the Almoravid launched their invasion of Spain. Berber speaking people were already present throughout the Sahara and into Mauritania prior to the arrival of Islam. Any suggestion that these people arrived there at about the same time as Islam is pure histrionics based on Islam being the catalyst for the development of African culture. The fact that you have settlements in Mauritania going back 4,000 years makes it clear that trade and commerce was already a well developed pattern long before the arrival of Islam and that many of these folks included Berber speakers. The spread of Berber speaking Nomads from Sudan and East Africa into North West Africa far predates the arrival of Islam and certainly is not derived from Islam. Much of what is written about the "arrival" of Berbers into Mauritania or the Sahara "magically" about the same time as Islam is nonsense. That is like saying that Africans arrived in the Sahara about the same time as the Arabs. In reality the movement of Islam is not the same as the movement of Berber speakers. Inscriptions in Tifinagh from throughout the Sahara are over 2000 years old. Berber speakers have moved around in Africa over the last 1000 years, but most of that movement has been of black Africans Southward in response to encroachment by foreigners. From wikipedia, which really contradicts itself on this issue in many ways: [QUOTE] The Znaga or Zenaga tribes were at the bottom of Sahrawi-Moorish society in today's Mauritania and Western Sahara in North Africa. They performed demeaning duties for their Hassane (warrior) and Zawiya (religious) overlords, and were additionally exploited through payment of the horma tax in exchange for protection, as they could not bear arms. Though often Arabized in culture and language, they are believed to be descended from the Sanhaja Berber population present in the area before the arrival of the Arab Maqil tribes in the 12th century, which was finally subjected to domination by Arab-descended warrior castes in the 17th century Char Bouba war;[1] according to Mercer, the word "znaga" is thought to be a distortion of "Sanhaja". [/QUOTE]From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znaga [/QB][/QUOTE]
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