部落及其宗族谱系长期以来一直维系和规范着利比亚社会,民众的部落意识浓重。利比亚的部落按照其族裔主要分为阿拉伯谱系、柏柏尔谱系和少数民族部落。部落社会可分为六个层次,一部落内部又分为部落长老和部落民众两个层级。同一部落成员相对聚居分布,部落长老拥有最高权威,成员间权利和义务均等。利比亚部落具有相对固定的构成要素和运行机制,也已形成稳定的文化与认同。随着国家的现代化和城市化进程的加速,传统的部落组织结构受到一定冲击,部落成员与部落之间的依附关系出现松动。但从整体看,利比亚社会经济仍不发达,文化落后,全国性的政治民主化进程刚刚起步,部落势力依然具有较大影响力。
Tribes and their clans hold the Libyan society together,so the tribal consciousness of Libyan people is very strong. There are three kinds of tribes in Libya:Arab tribes,Berber tribes and minority tribes. Libyan tribal society is divided into 6 levels,and there are 2 ranks in a tribe:Sheik and tribal people. Most of people belonging to one tribe inhabit one region,and they have the same rights and duties,while the Sheik has the supreme power. Libyan tribes have relatively fixed integrant parts and operation mechanism,as well as the stable culture and self-identity. With the acceleration of modernization and urbanization,traditional organizational structure is shocked so that the relationship between the member and the tribe is not as close as before. Generally speaking,Libya is still underdeveloped in economics,culture and politics,tribal factors still have great influences.