Berbers – Ali Al-Yassari
The common stereotype of the barbarian must be torn apart and the use of (barbarian) to denote savagery and barbarism must be stopped because it is a cruel historical injustice that some of us find no embarrassment in applying to every barbarian who is accused of being rude and primitive and who has no share of civilization!
The term goes back to the Greeks who applied it to the Berbers on the grounds that they did not speak Greek and for their courage and valor in wars. Then the writers adopted it without referring to its hateful racist root, so it became a word (barbaric) that includes all the negative, degrading and shameful meanings and indicates a great historical injustice that includes a lot of cruelty. This insult still haunts them today!
Isn’t it enough for us to review many barbarian scholars, their titles, and their contributions to the so-called Arab civilization, so we can immediately stop using this oppressive tyranny?
Isn’t it enough for us to remember:
1- Abbas Ibn Firnas, the Amazigh mathematician, musician, poet, engineer, and the first to think about flying
2-The Berber traveler Ibn Battuta, whom the glorious Arab nation is proud of!
3 – Ibn Manzur al-Barbari, author of Lisan al-Arab
4 – Ibn al-Bitar al-Barbari, a doctor, pharmacist, and botanist
5 – Ibn Rushd Al-Barbari, the modern philosopher
Will Malik Bennabi and Mohamed Arakun not intercede for them, so that we can turn the page on the savagery and primitivism attributed to the Berber Berbers?
