베르베르와 이슬람

Abstract

Many minorities around the world have been lived regardless of their nationality. Since before the entry of Arab migrants to Maghreb(North Africa), for many centuries there were Berber tribes that based on the present Tunisia and fought against the Romans in Carthage. Before the Rome's domination of the Mediterranean, the Berber originally lived all over the Maghreb(North Africa) had close cooperation with Carthaginian and remained true to their identity. Carthaginian monopolized the Southwest Mediterranean trade and was a maritime power. The Berber means the tribe inhabiting the Sahara of North Africa for many centuries and we estimate that they are more than twenty millions. When the Berber entered to there, many people started to believe Islam or to marry an Arab while the others remain true to their identity yet. After the World War I, areas of the Maghreb which were colonized by strong Europe became independent and newly formed countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia, Mauritania, etc. Each country had their own nation but the Berber inhabiting those areas remain true to their language and cultural traditions. In this article we talked about how the Berber people lived after the glorious history of remaining people in Maghreb region, and how could they survived under the islamic value and the western colonial power after the rule of the ancient Rome. We also examined carefully on the forms of the orthdox Islam and the folk Islam, and their co-existence and harmony in Arabs.