The Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture honors researcher Michel Perron “Isem Aberbash”
The Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture honored, today, Wednesday in Rabat, the French researcher, Michel Perron, in recognition of his scientific and literary contributions in introducing the Amazigh culture and language.
The Dean of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, Ahmed Bocuse, stated that he met the researcher Michel Perron, nicknamed “Isme Aberbash” in the 1960s at the Faculty of Arts in Rabat. Bocuse added that the celebrated person draws from “important” knowledge of the Amazigh culture and language, highlighting in this regard. , that Perron contributed greatly to introducing these two basic components of Moroccan culture, noting that “we have always admired his mastery of the Amazigh language, to which he devoted the lion’s share of his time.”
For his part, Michel Perron emphasized that his interest in the Amazigh language and culture is due to two main reasons, first of all his past as a traveler, which led him to the paths of the Middle and High Atlas and to meet the mountainous inhabitants.
As for the second reason, Peron explains, it is represented in his reading of one of the books of General Guillaume, which included a novel centered on the European self in its presentation of the Amazigh culture, which prompted him to explore specialized writings on the subject and conduct research in order to identify this culture from a local point of view.
For this purpose, Peron adds, “I learned the language and studied Amazigh oral literature in its components of prose and poetry, and memorized a group of songs, which were steps that yielded fruits as I wrote the first book on poetry in the Amazigh language “Isafen Ghabanin” (The Deep Valleys) (1993). ), then followed by a group of other articles and then wrote the author “The Amazighs of Morocco: A History of Resistance (2020).”
Perron considered that his research is mainly practical and requires a great involvement in the field, recalling that his passion for Amazigh culture and language led him to teach the history of Amazigh culture at Al Akhawayn University (2001-2009), as well as his supervision of translation lessons from Amazigh into French at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences in Rabat.
Witnesses unanimously agreed about the celebrated person, that his writings enrich the Moroccan and Amazigh libraries in particular, and that he is an ambassador of the Amazigh language and culture, highlighting that his abundant research reflects his communication with the local population that gave him generosity and love itself.
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