History of the Berbers & Arabs in North Africa, by Ibn Khaldûn (Hardcover)

History of the Berbers & Arabs in North Africa (Muslim Kingdoms and Dynasties from the 1st to the 8th century of the Hegira) , by Ibn Khaldûn, Translation by W. De Slane

This work deals with the history of the Berber and Arab tribes of North Africa ( Sanhaja , Maghrawa , Zenata , Zwawa , etc.) from the arrival of Islam until the time of Ibn Khaldûn (1332, m 1406 ) . It reviews the small and the big events that this region experienced , as well as the arrival of Arab and Berber Muslims in Spain. With great detail, Ibn Khaldûn traces a chronology of the rise and decline of Arab and Berber dynasties and kingdoms (Almohads, Hafsids , Fatimids, etc. ) .

The cohabitation between these two peoples (Arabs and Berbers) , Islamized a few decades apart in the first century of the Hegira, was certainly conflicting at its beginnings but this cohabitation knew how to change thereafter into a true fusion.

The knowledge of its own history, for a nation or a people, can be likened to the roots of a tree. Peoples are nourished by their history like a tree through its roots.

This book fills an important “cultural void” for those who have roots in the Maghreb, and allows them to refine their view of their own roots. All Europeans will learn there, for their part, the history of the other shore of the Mediterranean which, yesterday was still months away, and which today has become "the neighbor to the south", two hours from flight from Paris.