HISTORY 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Toleration, Tagelmust, Tijaniyyah
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Arab conquest of north africa (begun in egypt and moved west) Maghreb = sunset" b/c looking west, you see the sunset. Sahell: transition zone b/w desert and grassland (yellow part) means coast" also called the sudan . Sudan - ethnic designation (sudan = land of the black ppl) 16th-18th c: maghreb (minus morocco) under control of the ottomans. Ottomans established the east/west borders of algeria present to extract resources for ottoman state, but it left the basic social organization and tribal structure in place on the ground. Algeria roughly divided into 2 groups: beber and arab. Beber = ingenious ppl of north africa (called beber b/c they speak beber) Bebers are today in the most remote sections of algeria: mountains + desert step to the south.
