Jarawa (Berber tribe)

{{Short description|Berber tribal confederacy}}

The Jarawa or Jrāwa were a nomadic Berber Zenata tribal confederacy, who may have converted to Christianity according to Mohamed Talbi,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ|title=Dictionary of African Biography|last1=Gates|first1=Professor Henry Louis Jr.|last2=Akyeampong|first2=Professor Emmanuel|last3=Niven|first3=Mr Steven J.|date=2012-02-02|publisher=OUP USA|pages=270|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|language=en}}{{Cite encyclopedia|year=1995|title=Djerawa|encyclopedia=Encyclopédie berbère|publisher=Edisud|url=https://journals.openedition.org/encyclopedieberbere/2187|last=El Briga|first=C.|publication-place=Aix-en-Provence|volume=16 {{!}} Djalut – Dougga|issue=16 |isbn=2744902071|editor-last=Camps|editor-first=Gabriel|editor-link=Gabriel Camps|pages=2451–2452|doi=10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.2187 |doi-access=free}} though Ibn Khaldun claimed they were Jewish.{{Cite book |last=Bruder |first=Edith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHBjAgAAQBAJ&dq=jarawa+jewish+kahina&pg=PA102 |title=The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity |date=2008-06-05 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-533356-5 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Kapteijns |first=Lidwien |date=2001 |title=Review of Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097579 |journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=684–686 |doi=10.2307/3097579 |jstor=3097579 |issn=0361-7882}} The Berber tribe ruled in northwest Africa before and during the 7th century. Under queen Dihya, the tribe led the Berber resistance against the Umayyad Islamic invasion in the late 7th century.{{Cite encyclopedia|year=2005|volume=27 {{!}} Kairouan – Kifan Bel-Ghomari|editor-first=Salem|editor-last=Chaker|chapter=Kahena. (Al-Kâhina)|isbn=978-2744905384|pages=4102–4111|location=Aix-en-Provence|title=Kahena|author-link=Yves Modéran|first=Yves|last=Modéran|chapter-url=https://journals.openedition.org/encyclopedieberbere/1306|publisher=Edisud|encyclopedia=Encyclopédie berbère|issue=27 |doi=10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1306 |editor-link=Salem Chaker|doi-access=free}}