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However, the Mozabite Berbers of the M'zab Valley in the town of Ghardaïa in Algeria and some Libyan Berbers in the Nafusa Mountains and Zuwara are primarily adherents of Ibadi Islam. In antiquity, before the arrival of Abrahamic faiths into North Africa, the Berber people adhered to the traditional Berber religion.
The origin of the Libyco-Berber script is still debated by academic researchers. [7] [8] The leading theories regarding its origins posit it as being either a heavily modified version of the Phoenician alphabet, or a local invention influenced by the latter, [9] with the most supported view being that it derived from a local prototype conceptually inspired by a Phoenician or archaic Semitic ...
From right to left an Egyptian, an Assyrian, a Nubian, and four Libu men, Heinrich von Minutoli (1820) The Libu (Ancient Egyptian: rbw; also transcribed Rebu, Libo, Lebu, Lbou, Libou) were an Ancient Libyan tribe of Berber origin, from which the name Libya derives.
Unofficial estimates put the number of Berbers in Libya at around 600,000, about 10% of the population of Libya. [27] Among the Berber groups are the minority Berber populations of Zuwarah and the Nafusa Mountains, [28] and the nomadic Tuareg, who inhabit the southwestern areas as well as parts of southeastern Algeria, northern Mali, Niger and ...
The traditional Berber religion is the sum of ancient and native set of beliefs and deities adhered to by the Berbers.Originally, the Berbers seem to have believed in worship of the sun and moon, animism and in the afterlife, but interactions with the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans influenced religious practice and merged traditional faiths with new ones.
As in other rural Berber traditions, jewellery made of silver, coloured glass or iron is a special artform of the Tuareg people. [ 109 ] [ 110 ] While in other Berber cultures in the Maghreb jewelry is mainly worn by women, Tuareg men also wear necklaces, amulets and rings.
The other Libyan territories were called "Africa", which were Roman provinces. Classical Arabic literature called Libya Lubya, indicating a speculative territory west of Egypt. [clarification needed] Modern Arabic uses Libya. The Lwatae, the tribe of Ibn Battuta, [24] as the Arabs called it, was a Berber tribe that mainly was situated in Cyrenaica.
Berber languages are also spoken in some cases, including Ghadamès, Awjilah, and formerly Sawknah. Tamahaq is spoken by the Tuareg people . Libya's former Head of State Muammar Gaddafi denied the existence of Berbers as a separate ethnicity, and called Berbers a "product of colonialism" created by the West to divide Libya.