The Kerdasa or Al Kerdasa is a Arabized Berber tribe of Al harsha Town in Zawiya District. Who descandent of the General Falful ben khazrun, leader of the Maghrawa in North Africa.[1][2]
Range
editThe Kerdasa Rule is the town of al Harsha specifically around the Kerdasa Well, a well that the Kerdasa grew crops and the region of Fezzan.[3]
Later the Kerdasa may have migrated to Kerdasa, crossing the city of Sirte and Barqa where it became a saying when something is useless "like the kerdasa journey between sirt and barqa".[4]
Population and sects
editThe Kerdasa is mainly divided into four sects each divided into families. With the population rounded up in 1958 to 2210.
Cenara (الكنارة) from a clear Berbers origins:[5] Largest sect, divided into the families of al ahsan (الاحسان), al aziab (الاذياب), al jaghamana (الجغامنة), al alalba (الغلالبة), al zwakir(الزاوكير), awlad jrad (اولاد جراد) and awlad slamana (اولاد سلامنة). In 1958 were around 726
Awlad sula (اولاد صولة): second largest sect consist of al shahabna (الشهابنة), al awghal (الاغوال)،al brabishia (البرابشية)،al swadig (الصواديق)، al twama (التوامى), al manaşir (المناصير), al ghamama (القمامة) and Al wahdaian (الوحادئين). In 1958 was around 582
Awlad slama (اولاد سلامة): al amarien (العمارين)، al asal (الاعسال), al trasha (الطرائشة) and al trarga (الطرارقة).rounded around 562 in 1958
Awlad ata allah (اولاد عطاء الله): rounded up to be around 332 in 1958[6]
References
edit- ^ صورة الارض - ابن حوقل (2024-06-06). صورة الارض لابن حوقل (published 103). pp. 103–104.
- ^ مجلة التاريخية المغربية (in Arabic). Imprimerie de l'UGTT. 2008. p. 260.
- ^ السالم ،الدكتور, حماه الله ولد (2011-01-01). حجاج ومهاجرون (علماء بلاد شنقيط - موريتانيا - في البلاد العربية وتركيا) (in Arabic). Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. p. 107. ISBN 978-2-7451-7229-7.
- ^ Muhammad Abdel Razzaq Manna. الاعلام الليبية [Arab genealogies in Libya] (in Arabic). p. 114.
- ^ ar-Rūmī, Yāqūt Ibn-ʿAbdallāh (1853). Lexicon geographicum, cui titulus est: Marāṣid al-iṭṭilaʿ ʿala asmāʾ al-amkina wa-'l-biqaʿ: Complectens literas [arabischer Text] ad [arabischer Text]. Tomus secundus (in Arabic). Apud E.J. Brill.
- ^ سكان ليبيا (2019). سكان ليبيا. p. 383.