Moroccan personality

This academic work was presented by Professor Khalid Al-Hayani, Director of the University Library, Mohamed Al-Saqat, in Casablanca, and after his presentation titled: "The Maturation of an Idea and the Crowning of a Project," the chapters of this book followed, which came in 91 pages of small size, as follows: -In presenting the problem and the tools to address it, -Early birth and formation over a long period, -The imprint of Islam and the shock of modernity, -The age of duality or Morocco of dualities, -Anticipating a horizon or the meaning of being Moroccan. The origin of this intellectual achievement was a keynote lecture presented by Professor Tayeb Bayadh at the Mohamed Al-Saqat University Library on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, and its methodological framework consisted of five pillars or concepts: the concept of the long duration by the French historian Fernand Braudel, the concept of borders in history by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the concept of personality by the American anthropologist Ralph Linton, the concept of habitus by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and the concept of nationalism by the American historian Boyd Shafer. Tayeb Bayadh condenses the idea of his book into two expressive paragraphs, as follows: "That human being whose remains were preserved by the soil of Jebel Ighod was the first seed for this creature residing in Northwest Africa, then slow transformations occurred over a nearly stagnant time, turning him into a more active agent in the field, and during the ancient era, he became a self that was not only active but also interacted with emerging civilizations 'cloaked in diverse garments,' giving him the first characteristics of distinction from his surroundings. It is true that he did not know himself as Moroccan or identify himself as Moroccan, and his mental construction was devoid of any search for belonging or identity in its contemporary meanings, and even the morphology of his body was somewhat different from the current Moroccan. But to the extent that his brain's composition gradually transformed over thousands of years to settle into what it is today, his mental and psychological structure was forming in a fruitful interaction with both the local and the transient, shaping the features of the Moroccan human personality today."