Arab genealogy and Amazigh purism are the same test, run from opposite ends.
Gulf genealogy ranks Tunisians as insufficiently Arab; Amazigh purism answers with a bloodline test of its own. Alsace shows how Europe actually grants an ethnonym, by soil and time, not descent, and Ahmad Bey abolished slavery by decree in 1846, two years before France did. Tunisian is not a compromise between Arab and Amazigh; it is the name of everyone who stayed.
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