Igawawen | |
|---|---|
 The Igawawen flag captured in 1857. | |
| Languages | |
| Kabyle, Algerian Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Mostly Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chaouis, Mozabites, Shilha, Tuaregs, Chenouas, Rifians |
Igawawen or Gawawa, mostly known as Zwawa (in Kabyle: Igawawen, in Arabic: زواوة, and in Latin: Jubaleni[1]) were a group of Kabyle[2] tribes inhabiting the Djurdjura mountains, Greater Kabylia, in Algeria. The Zouaoua are a branch of the Kutama tribe of the Baranis Berbers.[3]
In the most restricted sense, the Igawawen were a confederation (kabyle: taqbilt, derived from arabic "قبيلة" meaning tribe) of 8 tribes split into two groups:
- Ait Betrun: Ait Yenni, At Wasif, Ait Budrar, Ait Bu Akkash.
- Ait Mengellet: Ait Mengellet proper, Ait Aqbil, Ait Attaf, Ait Bu Yusef.
- ^ Revue archéologique, Société française d'archéologie classique (in French), p. 28
- ^ Lanfry, Jacques (1978). "Les Zwawa (Igawawen) d'Algérie centrale (Essai onomastique et ethnographique)". Revue de l'Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée. 26: 75–101. doi:10.3406/remmm.1978.1825.
- ^ Ibn Khaldun, Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale (in French), Volume 1, Paris, Imprimerie du gouvernement, 1852, 447 p. (read online), p. 255