الحراك القبلي في المغرب الأوسط ما بين القرنيين 3-4 ه : قراءة في نموذج قبيلة كتامة

Abstract EN

Jacques Berque used genealogy to explain the phenomenon of division in the Maghreb tribes, while contemporary research attempts to explain the phenomenon by relying on other methodological approaches using the science of history.

However, research on such a topic faces a number of difficulties, including: the problem of the disappearance of the tribe's naming and it's replacement with the other names, the appearance of the same name in historical sources after its disappearance in a certain historical period, and the problem of the geographical spread of the tribe in more than one area.

The last one is what we are trying to address through our choice of the Kutama tribe model.

We will study this topic by relying on the analytical method of the various historical texts of the Fatimid period which showed us a geographical distribution of the Kutama ethnonim in the east to the Kiyana mountain range, and in the west in the Al-Wancharis region.

We aim also through this article to address the nature of the spatial movement that the Kutama tribe knew, and how it affected the disappearance of it's naming and turning it later into a tribal confederation, dening affiliation with its true origins and places it in the lineage of another trib.