Manuscript "Barbarian
Manuscript "Al-Barbari" by Sheikh Abi Zakaria Yahya Al-Yafrni - may God have mercy on him - is the oldest Berber text written so far.
About 10 centuries ago, in the Amazigh language, which is the translation of the book "Al-Mudawana" by Abu Ghanim Al-Khurasani - may God have mercy on him -.
Manuscript in the Amazigh language (translation) of the blog of Imam Abi Ghanem Al-Khorasani (d. 200 AH) in Ibadhi jurisprudence. Authored by Sheikh Abi Zakaria Yahya Al-Yafrni, may God have mercy on him.
For centuries, this manuscript was preserved by copying it many and successive times among the Ibadis in Tunisia, Libya and Algeria. There are currently four copies of it. The largest of these copies of the "Book of Barbarism" is located on 894 pages with about 20,000 lines and is under study by the Italian professor Vermondo Brugnatelli, who specializes in the Amazigh language at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, and who publishes several researches on it a few years ago. Researchers such as Adolphe de Calassanti-Motylinski confirmed that the texts of the Tunisian/Libyan Berber "Book of Berber" manuscripts are even older than the texts of the Susian-Moroccan Berber manuscripts. This makes Kitab al-Barbariyya perhaps the oldest Berber manuscript known to date.
It is estimated that the date of its text was composed between about the 11th century AD and the 14th century AD, that is, from about 700 to 1000 years before today. Specialists estimated this date on the basis of analyzing the method of writing orthography and the presence of several ancient linguistic styles that do not currently exist in Amazigh (such as the method of using numbers in: sen yur “two months”, sen ɣil “two cubits”, semmes menkuc “five dinars”, udmawen ayarḍin “faces”). The Three/The Three Sides"). Also, in the manuscript there are very old Berber words that are no longer used today in the Berber language, such as the old Berber name for “Islam (the Islamic religion)” which is: Aykuzen, and one of the names of “God” in the old Berber language.
In this ancient Berber manuscript ("Book of the Barbarians"), we find further conclusive evidence that the Berbers in the early period of entering Islam used to call their language Tamaziɣt (Tamazight), and this indicates the rooting of the word Tamaziɣt in the Berber language. Not, as many conspiracy theorists claim, that the word was invented by colonial France, and this word was written in this Berber manuscript in Arabic letters as follows: tamazight.
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