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Women in Amazigh Culture.
ReplyDeleteWhen Arabs first attacked ‘Tunis’ in 683, the Berber resistance leader Aksil, defeated them but was killed in a battle three years later in 686. He was succeeded by a woman leader of Jerawa tribe, whom the Arabs called El Kahena (priestess), an old widow who lived 127 years according to the legend.
Dihyā for “female seer”; modern Maghreb Arabic L-Kahena Berber Dihya was a 7th century female Berber religious and military leader, who led indigenous resistance to Arab expansion in Northwest Africa Numidia Maghreb today. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern day Algeria fighting the invaders, sword in hand, a warrior’s death.
This is to say how a prominent place women have in Berbers’ society and culture. They played a very important role in Amazigh societies throughout the various phases of Amazigh history.
Amazigh women are thought to be the fabled Amazon female warriors recorded by Diodorus Siculus, who reported that they had led their men to war, mutilated their enemies, and tinted cowardly men with henna. Pre-lslamic desert Amazigh society has been described as being almost entirely matriarchal in nature.
Another famous female Amazigh warrior was Barshako who dressed as a man and led camel raids on other tribes. She is said to have returned home only to dismiss her husband, saying that she would no longer cook and keep house for a man.
The Tuaregs call Tin Hinan “Mother of Us All.” They trace their origins as a separate people to an Amazigh desert matriarch, Queen Tin Hinan, who led them on a desert trek to the Ahaggar Mountains. The tomb of the legendary Tuareg queen, Tin Hinan, is located in Abalessa, the ancient capital of the Hoggar region.
The mother of the second Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad was an Amazigh slave named Sallama.
Zineb Nafzawi, one of the most famous Amazigh queens, shared power with her husband after the Islamic conquest of Spain, led by Islamicized Amazighs. Together, she and her husband ruled a huge empire extending from North Africa to Spain, between 1061 and 1107. When the Spanish expelled the Moslems from Spain at the end of the l5th century, many Andalusians, who were of Amazigh ancestry, settled in North Africa.
From there some engaged in piracy, raiding the Mediterranean for slaves and treasure. Sayyida Al-Hurra was so successful a pirate leader that she became the governor of Tetouan, Morocco. She retained the office for many years and was the undisputed leader of pirates of the western Mediterranean, while her ally, the famous Turkish Barbaros of Algiers, led the pirates of the eastern Mediterranean. Sayyida was a key player in the political bargaining between the Mediterranean powers as well. After the death of her first husband, she married the king of Morocco (on her terms, requiring him to come to her for their wedding). She reined in Morocco from 1510 to 1542.
Women in Amazigh Culture.
داهية كانت ملكة أمازيغيى في مناطقة الأوراس الجزائري دافعت الغزو العربي بشجاعة و قتلت غدرا من إبن عربي تبنته
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