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Entre el Magreb y el Sahel occidental: dinámicas de movilidad y poblamiento de grupos humanos beréberes en el espacio sahariano según las fuentes árabes (ss. III/IX-VIII/XIV)

Publicated to:MISCELANEA DE ESTUDIOS ARABES Y HEBRAICOS-SECCION ARABE-ISLAM 74 (): 53-84 - 2025-01-01 74(74), DOI: 10.30827/meaharabe.v74.30997

Authors: García Novo, Marta

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Abstract

This study analyzes the most relevant textual evidence from the Arabic medieval geographical corpus, together with other kinds of testimonies, such as travel and.aja.ib literature or historiographical accounts, in search for the mobility, presence and settlement dynamics of Berber human groups between the Maghrib and the western Sahel between the third/ninth and eighth/fouteenth centuries. Through the works of Ibn.awqal, al-Bakri, al-Idrisi, Ibn Ba..u.a and Ibn.aldun, and the systematization of the terminology that they apply to the different kinds of groups (qawm, ahl, qabila, among other terms), mostly.anhaja but also Zanata and Hawwara, this study will show the spaces that they occupy and the productive activities that allow this, from commerce and herding to Islamic studies or government. The mobility dynamics of Berber groups in the Saharan space for the greatest part of the medieval period will also be brought up, together with the continuities and transformations in settlement patterns and their relationship to production systems.

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