[3] The Lisan al-Gharbi was the official language of the Barghawata Confederacy, and the idiom used in Salih ibn Tarif's "indigenous Qur'an".
The Lisan al-Gharbi was the official language of the Barghawata Confederacy, and the idiom used in Salih ibn Tarif's "indigenous Qur'an".
With the decline of the Almohad army, the Arabs became the most powerful force in the Moroccan plains, and no ruler could have held authority there without their support.
[5] A letter, Rissalat al-fusul,[6] written in Béjaia on the orders of 'Abd al-Mu'min in Rabī' I 556 (January 1161) recalls the foundations of the Almohad doctrine and the fact that al-lisān al-ġarbī is the official name of this language and its sacred character.
[7] The work Kitāb al-ansāb fī maʿrifat al-aṣḥāb, which contains a sentence pronounced by Ibn Tumart when he was in a cave in Igiliz, makes it possible to make the link between the Arabic phrase and the Berber noun group (bi-l-lisān al-ġarbī or "in the Western language"), which in this context corresponds to the expression "in the Berber language".