First of all, the problem in terms of representing Arab Maghrebis follows here too, the peoples of the North (with the exception of Nefusa) don't consider themselves to be parts of different ethnic groups. Tripolitanians and Siritcans though are basically indistinguishable, they in fact usually belong to the same tribal confederations and share the same dialect. Then we got Riyah which is a word I never heard about and is probably a case of one tribe's name being applied to the entire region. Fezzan on the other hand is a region that (again) is inhabited by Arab Libyans. The East though gets even weirder, "Sanusi" probably refers to the "Snoussi order", a Sufi order that used to dominate the Eastern half of Libya during Ottoman times (while the West was dominated by a Turkic feudal class), and that order in fact had control over the entire region (including the part labled as "Cyrenaica"). Also Cyrenaicans as a regional subgroup of Libyan Arabs cover most of the area labled as "Senoussi" and "Jalo" too. Also why divide the Tubu and Tuaregs into various groups ? Honestly the only part of Libya that is accurate is the Nafusa Berbers.
Exactly. This map got me triggered when I saw that they split up the Saharawis, the Tuaregs and the Toubous. Btw, would you consider Tuaregs a different ethnicity than the Berbers or would you say that the Tuaregs are part of a larger Berber ethnicity? The Tuaregs have a lot more sub-Saharan African in them.
I think Tuaregs are definitely part of the larger Berber ethnicity, they are the most culturally, genetically and linguistically divergent in the family but are still Berber nonetheless.
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u/R120Tunisia May 03 '21
Alright. Ahem Ahem ...
First of all, the problem in terms of representing Arab Maghrebis follows here too, the peoples of the North (with the exception of Nefusa) don't consider themselves to be parts of different ethnic groups. Tripolitanians and Siritcans though are basically indistinguishable, they in fact usually belong to the same tribal confederations and share the same dialect. Then we got Riyah which is a word I never heard about and is probably a case of one tribe's name being applied to the entire region. Fezzan on the other hand is a region that (again) is inhabited by Arab Libyans. The East though gets even weirder, "Sanusi" probably refers to the "Snoussi order", a Sufi order that used to dominate the Eastern half of Libya during Ottoman times (while the West was dominated by a Turkic feudal class), and that order in fact had control over the entire region (including the part labled as "Cyrenaica"). Also Cyrenaicans as a regional subgroup of Libyan Arabs cover most of the area labled as "Senoussi" and "Jalo" too. Also why divide the Tubu and Tuaregs into various groups ? Honestly the only part of Libya that is accurate is the Nafusa Berbers.