Global InformationTamazgha information
Tamazgha[a] is a fictitious entity[1][2] and neologism in the Berber languages denoting the lands traditionally inhabited by the Berber peoples within the Maghreb.[3] The term was coined in the 1970s by the Berber Academy in France[4] and, since the late 1990s, has gained particular significance among speakers of Berber languages.[5] Although Berberists see Tamazgha as the geographic embodiment of a Berber imaginary of a once unified language and culture that had its own territory,[6][7] it has never been a single political entity,[8] and Berbers across the Maghreb did not see themselves as a single cultural or linguistic unit, nor was there a greater "Berber community" due to their differing cultures and languages.[9] Despite this, certain (but not all[10]) Berberists such as members of the Algerian separatist Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia use the term to imagine and describe a hypothetical federation spanning between the Canary Islands and the Siwa Oasis, a large swathe of territory including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Egypt, the Western Sahara, Burkina Faso and Senegal.[11][12][13]
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
- ^ Bennis, Said (2009-07-20). "The Amazigh Question and National Identity in Morocco". Arab Reform Initiative: 5.
- ^ Eman A. A. AlKroud (2018). "Renarrating the Berbers in Three Amazigh Translations of the Holy Quran: Paratextual and Framing Strategies" (PDF). www.research.manchester.ac.uk. p. 93. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-04-17. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ Brahim El Guabli (2023). "The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential". Tamazgha Studies Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
Often described as a neologism, Tamazgha can be simply defined as the Amazigh homeland.
- ^ Brahim El Guabli (2023). "The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential". Tamazgha Studies Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
The Académie Berbère may have invented the word Tamazgha, but the existence of a land where different varieties of Amazigh languages were spoken preceded the creation of the Académie itself.
- ^ Brahim El Guabli (2023). "The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential". Tamazgha Studies Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
Tamazgha is a concept that has acquired a transnational cultural and political significance among Amazigh speakers since the late 1990s.
- ^ Brahim El Guabli (2023). "The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential". Tamazgha Studies Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
Tamazgha is both the discursive and geographic embodiment of an Amazigh imaginary of a language and culture that were once unified and had their own territory.
- ^ "L'État marocain et la question amazighe: Rapport alternatif de Tamazgha au Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale (CERD)" (PDF). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2010. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
Tous les historiens de l'Afrique du Nord attestent que le pays est peuplé de Berbères depuis les temps les plus anciens. Ainsi, Ibn Khaldoun dans son Histoire des Berbères, peut écrire à propos du pays que l'on appelle le Maghreb et que nous appelons Tamazgha ou pays des Imazighen : "Depuis les temps les plus anciens, cette race d'hommes habite le Maghreb dont elle a peuplé les plaines, les montagnes, les plateaux, les régions maritimes, les campagnes et les villes.
- ^ Eman A. A. AlKroud (2018). "Renarrating the Berbers in Three Amazigh Translations of the Holy Quran: Paratextual and Framing Strategies" (PDF). www.research.manchester.ac.uk. p. 93. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-04-17. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ Probst, Peter; Spittler, Gerd (2004). Between Resistance and Expansion: Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 71. ISBN 978-3-8258-6980-9.
It is difficult to speak of any cultural unity among the Berbers. Historically the indigenous Berbers of Morocco did not see themselves as a single linguistic unit, nor was there any greater "Berber community".
- ^ Brahim El Guabli (2023). "The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential". Tamazgha Studies Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
In this context, Tamazgha is more an aspiration toward the recognition of Imazighen's civic rights than an endeavor to construct a political entity.
- ^ Stéphanie Pouessel (2010). "Les identités amazighes au Maroc". Le Matin d'Algérie. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
Le Mouvement d'autonomie de la Kabylie (MAK) de Ferhat Mehenni qui se dit kabyle avant d'être amazigh s'inscrit complètement dans ce mouvement fédéraliste qui englobe l'ensemble des composantes berbères nationales et des différentes diasporas dans un projet transnational porté par le Congrès mondial amazigh (CMA). Fondé à Saint Rome de Dolan dans le Sud de la France en 1995, le CMA a été dirigé par Mabrouk Ferkal, par Rachid Raha au IIe congrès de Lyon puis par Lounès Belkacem au Ille congrès tenu dans la banlieue lilloise en 2002. Au IVe congrès de 2005, tenu à Nador, il devait déclarer : "Nous revendiquons simplement le droit d'exister avec tous nos droits individuels et collectifs en tant que peuple. Notre pays est Tamazgha ; notre histoire millénaire ; notre culture a valeur universelle ; notre projet est démocratique et laïque, pacifique pour notre peuple. Notre espace régional n'est pas le Moyen-Orient, mais la Méditerranée occidentale.
- ^ Slyomovics, Susan (2006). "Self-Determination as Self-Definition: The Case of Morocco". In Hannum, Hurst; Babbitt, Eileen F. (eds.). Negotiating Self-determination. Lexington Books. p. 135. ISBN 0739114336. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Brahim El Guabli (2023). "The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential". Tamazgha Studies Journal. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
Located between the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and the oasis of Siwa in west Egypt, Tamazgha is both the discursive and geographic embodiment of an Amazigh imaginary of a language and culture that were once unified and had their own territory.