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' Text Appearing After Image: Berber Family at Dads: Woman mealing Corn. TAMGRUT AND TAMSLOT. 145 every j^ossible authority to do—to call themselvesShereefs ; and many of these noble Berber families,to whom Arabic is an unknown tongue, possess prob-ably no more than the original Arab blood of theirfirst Shereefian ancestor. In the same way many ofthe Berber tribes south of the Atlas are tainted withArab blood, and the most jDOwerful of all, the AitAtta, are j)roud of claiming descent from the tribe ofthe Koreish, which gave to the world the ProphetMohammed. The principal and best known Berber Shereefianfamilies are without doubt the descendants of SidBen Nasr of Tamgrut, on the AYad Draa, and thoseof Mnlai Brahim, and Mnlai Abdullah Ben Hoseyn ofTamslot, to the north of the Atlas, and some ten tofifteen miles south of Marakesh. However, the identity proclamation of the Cherifian lineage among the Berbers is a historical invention. This lying ritual has been part of Moroccan folklore since the Middle Ages.
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