Draoui

DRAOUI/DRAOUA or DRAWA: men, a valley, an area, a history complexes, of the origins, a name, a term

The name DRAOUI (in the plural: draoua or drawa) designates the various populations living or resulting from the VALLEY of the Drâa crossed by the longest river of Morocco: river DRÂA. These populations is varied ethnic origins : Arabic (of which some say CHORFA or of the sherifs i.e. having an ancestor going down from the MOHAMED prophet by his son-in-law and cousin ALI and his daughter Fatima Zahra), berbèrophones white or black (Berber Langues), Jews, former slaves of African origins (Sudanese woman in particular) and mongrel. the dysnastie of the saadiens comes from the valley du' DRÂA' . This valley gathered sedentary populations (farmers) and nomads (commercial).

Chorfa (plural of sherif) in French Arabic or of the sherifs are the equivalent of NOBLE in Occident.

In Morocco, but also in Algeria, DRAOUI is a family name .

Many Morrocans of the other areas of the kingdom associate, by ignorance, the term DRAOUI in downward Noirs or of slaves because following abolition " officielle" recent of slavery in Morocco (in the years 1950) and following repeated long periods of dryness, the poor populations, primarily black, left their beautiful valley for the " big cities; riches" kingdom (towards Casablanca or Marrakech in particular). From these big cities, some have immigrant towards Europe in the years 1970.

These populations of the Moroccan South and the Sahara Occidental played a paramount role in all Large Magreb, in sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Mali, Niger…), and in Europe (Southern of France, Spain, Portugal, Sicily etc…). The Moroccan South gave birth of great warlike arabo-Berber dynasties which, by a diplomatic play of alliances with the other tribes of the kingdom on often preserving religious bases, succeeded in extending and sitting their geographical influence over periods less less long.

The armies of Islamization were made up of Arab and various Islamized ethnos groups (Egyptian, Persian, phenicians, Romans, Greeks, Indians, Asian etc….) during the geographical progression of Islam. The current Arab term thus indicates a mosaic of heterogeneous populations of origins having jointly an Arab language and a basic culture (inherited Islam) from which will be born from the alternatives according to human and cultural specificities of the countries (see Arab language )

The Arabic-speaking people indicated by the term Berbère (derivative of the barbarian word) all the populations met not speaking a known language about the time (Greek or Roman in particular). Taking into account the pejorative direction of the Berber term, the berbérophones wish that one rightly indicate them by their true name: people AMAZIGHT .

Lastly, it should be recalled that current Morocco was composed, before the arrival of Arabic, of Jewish tribes (of which a part consisted of Amazight judaïsés).

The various Jewish tribes and amazight dispersed in the kingdom played a big role in the Moroccan culture and arabo-Andalusian Moorish Spain.

Of all the countries of Magreb, Morocco is inconstestablement that which profited the most from the cultural repercussions of the return from the arabo-Andalusians on the African ground after Reconquista (Spanish and Poutuguaise), at the price sometimes of the loss over several centuries of certain cities of the Kingdom: Safi (Safian), Agadir (Mogador), El Jadida (Mazagan), Sebta and Melilla (still both pennies Spanish domination)

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