Researcher Ismail Ouflah obtains a PhD on the topic “Towards a Toponymic Study of the Eth and Riager Tribes”
On the morning of Thursday, July 6, 2023, the student researcher, Ismail Ouflah, at the Faculty of Arts in Martil, discussed his thesis to obtain a doctorate degree on the topic “ Towards a Toponymic Study of the Eth and Riager Tribes ,” before a scientific committee composed of the professors:
Dr. Saeed Gardi: Chairman
Dr. Abdel-Hadi Amharf: Supervisor
Dr. Abdul-Karim Al-Murabit Al-Tarmash: Member
Dr. Abdel Aziz Boudad D: member
Dr. Hamid Al-Swaify: member
The phases of the competition began with the student researcher presenting a summary in which he simplifies the central problem surrounding his thesis related to working to highlight and clarify the strong and implied relationship between the name of the place and the linguistic, historical, cultural and other load it stores, as well as monitoring the motives controlling the naming of a land area, and searching for a card Its increase, and the changes that occurred to it with the passage of time, and its historical and current significance, and in more precise terms, a return to the general perception and the mechanism of thinking that produced these designations.
To approach this problem, the researcher asked general questions related to the names of specific places, such as where does a place derive its name from? Or how did he name it without another? What are the elements that can be assumed to have intervened in making these labels?
In order to discuss this problem, and the questions that derive from it, the student researcher divided the thesis into two parts, the first part is theoretical to some extent, and the second part is practical. The first section consists of four chapters. In the first chapter, the researcher dealt with the peculiarities of the Aeth and Riager tribes in terms of their language, geography, and history. In the second chapter, he presented a general picture of the central subject by returning to the context of its origin and development, and its importance in the field of human sciences, with evoking the most important previous Moroccan studies that worked on it, in addition to giving field models of naming places embraced by the Moroccan north, and in the theoretical framework. In his third chapter, the researcher dealt with the relationship presented between the topic of utopia and other sciences such as linguistics, geography and history, while in his fourth and final chapter he focused on carefully selected models of designations belonging to the tribe of Aeth and Riager, including designations belonging to what is human and others to what is natural. Not to mention designations whose reference is derived from the field of professions and crafts, due to their distinction.
In addition to this theoretical part, which is dealt with by the first section, the second section has been devoted to field work, in which it has chosen to work on the field of Eith “Boayash and its aspects” in research and study. This section, in turn, consists of four chapters, the first of which is dedicated to the study of the “Ayth Bouayash” area specifically, and as for its three topics, each one is classified based on the morphological nature of these designations. As for the second and third chapters, they were devoted to the study of six regions, each region with its own topic attached to a map to serve as a preliminary introduction to identifying examples of the names of the places of each region separately, not to mention knowing its location in reality, and leading to the fourth and final chapter of the field work, which devoted its investigations The three are to classify most of the nomenclature studied in the body of this thesis, through tables that express each of the semantic fields separately, with attached comments, observations and conclusions whenever necessary.
After the student Ismail Ouflah finished presenting his thesis summary, the head of the scientific session kindly opened the door for interventions to the members of the committee who noted the scientific value of this research work, and made important methodological and objective observations aimed primarily at raising the value of this academic product.
At the end of the discussion, and after deliberation, the committee decided to accept the dissertation and grant the student the title of Doctor of Arts, Composition: Linguistics, Communication and Translation, with a very honorable distinction, with the committee noting the work done.
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