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Encyclopedia Britannica



KABYLES, or KABAIL

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 626 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KABYLES, or KABAIL , a confederation of tribes in
Algeria
 , Tunisia, and a few oases of the Sahara, who form a branch of the
great
  Berber race. Their name is the Arabic gabilat (pl.: gabail), and was at first indiscriminately applied by the Arabs to all Berber peoples. The part of
Algeria
  which they inhabit is usually regarded as consisting of two divisionsGreat Kabylia and Lesser Kabylia, the former being also known as the Kabylia of the Jurjura (also called Adrar Budfel, " Mountain of Snow "). Physically many Kabyles do not present much contrast to the Arabs of Algeria. Both Kabyle and Arab are white at
birth
 , but rapidly grow brown through exposure to air and sunshine. Both have in general brown eyes and wavy
hair
 
of coarse quality, varying from dark brown to jet black. In stature there is perhaps a little difference in favour of the Kabyle, and he appears also to be of heavier build and more muscular. Both are clearly
long
 -headed. Some, however, of the purer type of Kabyles in Kabylia proper have
fair
  skins, ruddy complexions and blue or grey eyes. In fact there are two distinct types of Kabyles: those which by much admixture have approximated to Arab and negroid types, and those which pre-serve Libyan features. Active, energetic and enterprising, the Kabyle is to be found far from homeas a soldier in the French army, as a workman in the towns, as a field labourer, or as a pedlar or trader earning the means of purchasing his bit of ground in his native
village
 . The Kabyles are Mahommedans of the Sunnite branch and the Malikite rite, looking to Morocco as the nearer centre of their religion. Some of the Kabyles retain their vernacular speech, while others have more or less completely adopted Arabic. The best known of the Kabyle dialects is the Zouavel or Igaouaouen, those speaking it having been settled on the northern side of the Jurjura at least from the time of Ibn Khaldun; it is the principal basis of Hanoteau's Essai de grammaire kabyle (Paris, 1858). Unlike their southern brethren, the Kabyles have no alphabet, and their literature is still in the stage of oral transmission, for the most part by professional reciters. Hanoteau's Poesies populaires de la Kabylie du Jurjura (Paris, 1867) gives the text and
translation
  of a considerable number of historical pieces, proverbial couplets and quatrains, dancing songs, &c.
Consult General L. L. C.
Faidherbe
  and Dr Paul Topinard, Instructions sur l'anthropologie de l'Algerie (Paris, 1874); Melchior Joseph
Eugene
  Daumas, Le Sahara algerien (Paris, 1845) and Msurs et coutumes de l'Algerie (1857) ; De Slane's
translation
  of Ibn Khaldun's Hist. des Berberes (Algiers, 1852) ; Aucapitaine, Les Kabyles et la colonie de l'Algerie (Paris, 1864) and Les Beni M'zab (1868) ; L. J. A. C. Hanoteau and A. Letourneux, La Kabylie et les coutumes kabyles (Paris, 1893) ; Charmetant, in Jahrbucher der Verbreitung des Glaubens (1874) ; Masqueray, Formation des cites . . de l'Algerie (1886) ; Dugas, La Kabylie et le peuple kabyle (Paris, 1878) ; Recoux, La Demographie de l'Algerie (Paris, 1880) ; J. Liorel, Races berberes: les Kabyles (Paris, 1893) ; Maelver and Wilkin, Libyan Notes (1901).


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