The 5 greatest Amazigh women in history who assumed kingship, leadership, and leadership
Women have a great position in Amazigh society, and current historical and anthropological studies confirm the position that Amazigh women held in their society throughout historical times, as they enjoyed broad freedom and enjoyed an honorable position that befits them. As the Amazigh woman enjoyed a distinguished and honorable position, which women rarely have among most peoples, she was a queen, a leader, a leader, a poet, a hermit, a mystic, and a warrior... History has immortalized us with many examples of them, and the following are the most prominent and greatest 5 Amazigh women in history who assumed kingship, leadership, and leadership:
The 5 greatest Amazigh women in history who assumed kingship, leadership, and leadership
1-The Amazigh Queen Tihia:
Bronze statue of the Amazigh Queen Dihya in Algeria
The great Amazigh queen, “Dihya of Eurasia,” nicknamed in Arab historical sources as “the shrewd Amazigh priestess,” ruled her Amazigh people as a successor to the Amazigh king, Axel, and ruled most of North Africa. She was a great queen and military leader who was known for her courage and strength. She resisted the Romans and defeated them in more than one location, and also confronted the armies. She defeated them and defeated the Arab leader Hassan bin Al-Numan, and was known in her wars with the Arab Muslim armies as the first woman to defeat them in an evil defeat, as she pursued their remnants until she expelled them from Africa, as described by Ibn Khaldun. Later, she adopted a scorched earth policy to stop the ambitions of Muslims in the land of Africa. In the last days of her life, she was killed treacherously and gallantly on the battlefield.
The historian Ibn Adhari Al-Marrakshi said about it: All the Romans in Africa are afraid of it, and all the Amazighs are obedient to it - Ibn Adhari - vol. 1 - p. 37
The scholar Ibn Khaldun said about her: Dehya, an Amazigh knight whose likes had never been seen in time, would ride a horse and race among the people from the Aures to Tripoli, carrying weapons to defend the land of her ancestors. – Ibn Khaldun, Book of Lessons, Part Seven, p. 11.
The historian Al-Tha’alabi said about her : After a tough battle, this rare woman became a victim of defending the country’s fever - Al-Tha’alabi: previous source, p. 77.
2-The Amazigh resistance to Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
A French drawing of the Amazigh warrior Lalla Fatima n Sumer
The Amazigh leader Lalla Fatima N. Soumer was one of the largest leaders of the Algerian national resistance at the beginning of the French colonial invasion of Algeria. She led her people in several battles to repel the advance of the French armies on Algeria. The French historian Louis Massignon called her “Joan of Arc,” likening her to the great French national heroine, “Joan of Arc.” In appreciation of the historical role of the Amazigh heroine Fatima N'Soumer, women's associations and several places were named after her, and a statue was built for her in Algeria. Literary and artistic works were also written around her. Algeria recently launched the S "Fatima N'Soumer" on one of its giant ships prepared in Japan to transport gas in memory of her.
From what the French historian Edmond wrote about her : Fatima was the spirit of the peasants’ revolution in Djurjura in 1857...from an honorable and rich family...and she predicted the French invasion and its entirety and was intelligent intuitively...according to my own eyewitnesses...when she was brought to a French camp. After entering the village of "Ihline".
3-The Amazigh Queen Tin Hinan
An artistic painting depicting the throne of the Amazigh Queen Tin Henin
Tin Hinan, Queen of the Tuareg Amazighs, ruled in the fifth century AD, and on her the Amazighs base their social organization, which derives power - until now - from the wisdom of women. Tin Hinan was a unique queen. All accounts and monuments prove that she was defending her land and her Amazigh people against other invaders from the tribes of Niger, present-day Mauritania, and Chad. She was known to be wise and cunning. She was appointed queen because of her wisdom and extraordinary abilities in leadership and persuasion. Today, there are antiquities and precious jewelry belonging to the Amazigh Queen Tin Henin in the California Museum in America, after her tomb was discovered after joint excavations by French and American experts in 1925, that is, during the colonial period. When the tomb was found, the French took the stone coffin and the skeleton, while the Americans seized the jewelry. They put it in a museum in California. There was an initiative by the Algerian Ministry of Culture in the early 1990s to retrieve these antiquities and jewelry. The mayor of California required the presence of the mayor of Ablasa in person to hand over the jewelry to him, according to certain agreements, but the process did not take place for reasons that remain unknown..! For reference, the local authorities in Algeria annually hold an international festival in its name to introduce the tourism and historical potential of the Amazighs of the Ahvars.
4-The Amazigh woman Kenza El Orbiyya
An imaginary painting of the Amazigh woman Kenza El Orbiyya Kenza El Orbiyya A
The daughter of the leader of the Amazigh tribe of Europe, she took over advice after the death of her husband, Idris I, who fled from the oppression of the Abbasids. This Amazigh woman played an important role in establishing the foundations of the Idrisid emirate, especially after the death of her husband, Idris I, as she showed great excellence in preparing well for the succession of power. Rather, her advice and wisdom would extend to intervention in critical situations. The El Orbiyya Kenza was both the right and left shield of Idris I when she married him after he fled as a fugitive from the East, so he sought help and took refuge with the Amazighs who responded to him after he directed
A call for help to the Amazighs, as stated in it: “... Titans in the horizons, east and west, have betrayed, shown corruption, and the earth is filled with injustice and oppression. People have no refuge and no good hope in their enemies. Perhaps you, the tribes of our Amazigh brothers, will be the reaping hand of injustice and injustice, and supporters of the Qur’an and Sunnah. Those who stand up for the rights of the oppressed, among the descendants of the Prophets, so be in the position of one who strived with the Messengers, and God’s victory was with the Prophets, and know, people of the barbarians, that I have come to you, and I am the oppressed, the anxious fugitive, the fearful one, the dying one, whose helpers have increased and whose helpers have been few, and whose brothers, father, grandfather, and family have been killed, so respond to God’s caller. He has called you to God...”
5-Amazigh leader Zainab Nafzawi
A poster for one of the films that dealt with the life of the Amazigh leader Zeinab Nafzaouia
According to historians' accounts, this Amazigh woman was a great, ambitious, articulate woman with an opinion and determination who would not be satisfied with men except those with determination, including kings and leaders. Her full name is Zainab bint Ishaq al-Nafzawiyya, and her name in Amazigh is: Zaina Tanfzawut. She descends from the Amazigh Nafza tribe, increased in the year (1072 AD), and she is one of the famous Amazigh women in Morocco during the era of the Almoravid Amazigh Empire.
Ibn Khaldun said about her: She was one of the women in the world famous for her beauty and leadership. Describing her as one of the women of the world, meaning her great status among her people, Zainab moved to Aghmat and married the Amazigh king, Yusuf bin Tashfin al-Lamtouni, in the year 454 AH.
The author of the survey said about this: She was the symbol of his happiness, the one who took care of his situation, managed his affairs, and conquered him with her good policy in most of the countries of the Maghreb.
It was reported on the authority of Ibn al-Atheer in Al-Kamil: She was one of the best women and ruled in the country of her husband, Ibn Tashfin.
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