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Berber scholars

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Abd el-Krim
war leader and president of the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926
Ibn Tumart
Amazigh religious scholar, teacher and politician
Sidi Boushaki
Algerian theologian, exeget, linguist and sufi
Abd Allah ibn Yasin
Theologian, founder of Almoravid movement
Mohammed Arkoun
Algerian philosopher (1928–2010)
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti
Malian academic (1556-1627)
Adrian of Canterbury
Abbot of Canterbury
Tassadit Yacine
Algerian anthropologist
Ikrima ibn Abd Allah al-Barbari
Islamic scholar & jurist, 8th C.
Muhammad al-Maghili
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghīlī (), commonly known as Al-Maghīlī (); 909–840 AH/ 1440–1505 CE) was a Berber Sunni scholar from Tlemcen, the capital of the Kingdom of Tlemcen, now in modern-day Algeria and came to be the most influential medieval scholar of West Africa. He is chiefly remembered for three things: his campaigns against the Jews, his position as an Islamic reformer, and his contributions to political theory. Beyond this, he produced an extensive body of writings that covered a wide range of disciplines, including Mālikī jurisprudence, hadith studies, kalām (theology), Sufism
Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Wansharīsī
Algerian theologian and maliki jurist
Ibn Ghazi al-Maknasi
scholar
Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani
theologian from Ifriqiya
Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi
Moroccan academic, politician and writer (1900–1963)
Abu ʿImran al-Fasi
Moroccan writer
Mohamed Chafik
Moroccan writer and linguist
Waggag ibn Zallu al-Lamti
Berber Islamic scholar of the 11th century
Ahmad Zarruq
Moroccan Shadhili Sufi, jurist and saint (1442–1493)
Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani
Moroccan writer
Ibn Arafa
Ifriqiyan imam
Abdellah Bounfour
Moroccan linguist
Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi
legal scholar
Ahmed Ou Moussa
Saint, sheikh and islamic scholar
Mohammed ibn Nasir
Moroccan scientist
Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi
Moroccan Sufi scholar and writer