All posts about Ait Merghad tribe

The Aït Merghad calendar is well known thanks to Ahmed Skounti's book "Le Sang et le Sol, nomadisme et sédentarisation au Maroc", in which he describes the tribe's way of measuring time.

Despite the tribal wars, every year a pilgrimage leaves the Aït Atta lands for the Aït Merghad lands, in homage to Sidi Abderrahmane El Aroussi.

Among the Aït Morghad (and the Aït Yafelman in general), the female Anougoud is called Tixsi, and in the plural Oulli. From one valley to another, the names used to designate the animals can change. Izimmer is used everywhere, as is Anougoud.