The Berber Revolt that took place between 739-743 stands out in the history of the Middle East as the first of the major uprisings of non-Arabs against Arab privilege in the Umayyad Caliphate. I will be examining this uprising as the precursor to the Abbasid Revolution a decade later. As one of the driving forces behind the Abbasid Revolution was largely an armed rejection of Arab privilege, then the Berber Revolt a decade earlier rose out of those same frustrations. In examining the ongoing tensions between Berbers and Arabs, I will be examining the formation of a Berber identity within a larger Islamic World. While Berber rebels were consistently labeled as Kharajite supporters, I will look to differentiate those that ascribed to Kharajite theology, and those that are being labeled as such to dismiss their concerns, and delegitimize the uprising itself. Thus the Berber Revolt not only was the culmination of decades of resentment aimed at Arab privilege under the Umayyad Caliphs, the way in which was characterized allowed for the Umayyads to dismiss the very real grievances of non-Arabs in the caliphate. The overall failure of the Berbers to seize the major centers of power in the western reaches of the Caliphate allowed the Umayyads to dismiss the concerns of those who rose up, it blinded them to the concerns of peoples much closer to home, resulting in the Abbasid Revolution.