Igawawen

Zwawa
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:

  1. ^ Revue archéologique, Société française d'archéologie classique (in French), p. 28
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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