Maghrebinn.adj.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 150 The Magrebins, or Westerlings, comprehending those of Barbary, Fez, and Morocco, who meet at Caire.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dict. Britannicum at Caravan Another [caravan] is that of the Magrebins that serves those of Barbary, Fez and Morocco.

1871 Ladies' Repository 7 300/1 The North African Jews—Maghrebin..devote themselves far less than their brethren to religious studies and exercises.

1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. v. v. 196 The Islamite world witnessed a great struggle for supremacy between..the Maghrebin in the west, the Mashrikin in the east.

1908 H. R. Palmer tr. Kano Chron. in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 38 82 Shehu Abubakr the Maghrebine said: ‘If you wish to repel the men of Katsina, I will give you something to do it with’.

1938 H. Edib tr. H. Massé Islam p. viii L. Massignon..gives the number of Muslems living in North Africa, French Western Africa, French Equatorial Africa, Madagascar, the coasts of Somali, Indo China, and the French settlements of India, as well as the Maghrebins settled in France, as more than 19 million souls.

1994 N. Rachedi in B. Lewis & D. Schnapper Muslims in Europe v. 69 The practice of cohabitation is making its appearance among young Maghrebins.

1911 D. S. Margoliouth Mohammedanism i. 20 At the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 the Maghrebine power received a serious blow in Spain.

1963 E. Gellner in J. Pitt-Rivers Mediterranean Countrymen 146 Middle Eastern or Maghrebin tribes are generally marginal or dissident groups.

1976 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 3 We cannot seek the model for the classical Maghrebin city either in Western Feudal society or in ‘Asiatic’ society.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 22 Feb. 29/2 In France being of Maghrebin origin..now ‘equals Muslim fundamentalism equals an admirer of Saddam Hussein’.