Category
page 1Mauritanian Moors
Moktar Ould Daddah
President of Mauritania from 1960 to 1978
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Mauritanian Prime Minister
Emirate of Trarza
emirate in Mauritania
Zawāyā
The Zawaya are tribes in the southern Sahara who have traditionally followed a deeply religious way of life. They accepted a subordinate position to the warrior tribes, whether Arab or Berber, who had little interest in spreading Islam. The Zawaya introduced Sufi brotherhoods to the black populations south of the Sahara. The jihad movements of the Fula people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have their origins with the Zawaya. Today the Zawaya are one of the two noble castes of Mauritania.