The typology of the nomadic Mghreb tribes

In the Northern Africa region, which is the crossroads of Berber and Arab, nomadic and sedentary cultures and traditions, the problem of relations between various cultural and ethnic groups of people acquires a special meaning. The classification of the existing economic-cultural types and historical-cultural areas of nomadic people settlements in the Maghreb are of the interest of the present research. In order to preserve the valuable features of the Maghreb culture, as well as to replenish knowledges that can help Northern Africa states to overcome ethnic and social conflicts caused by the collision of the nomadic and sedentary cultures, the typology of the nomadic Maghreb tribes should be studied in more details and reinterpreted according to the modern world realities. The classification is derived depending on the frequency of nomadic migrations, which depends on the climatic conditions of the region, their seasonality, economic-cultural types of different tribes, traditions and distance of locations from the sources of water for the livestock. Thus, in the present research, the questions of the methodology to the complication of the classification are touched upon; a comparative analysis of the theories is held; a cumulative typology is derived, and the examples of the most numerous groups of nomadic tribes are given.