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Ibn Battuta also wrote this
" It goes thence to Yufi (Nufi), one of the greatest states in Negroland, and the Sultan of which is among the most powerful princes of that quarter of the earth. No white man can reach that country, for sure death awaits him from the natives before he penetrates so far. From Yufi the Nile descends to Nubia, the inhabitants of which are Christians, and to Dongolah"
http://books.google.com/books?id=380NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA89
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Arabic Terms Used for Complexions
"One of these misunderstood terms is the term "white" ابيض . Most people think that when the Arabs of the past described a person's complexion as "white", they meant the same light complexion that is meant today. This isn't true at all. When the Arabs described a person as "white", they actually meant a dark complexion"
http://savethetruearabs.com/gpage2.html
"The Negroland of the Arabs examined and explained" By William Desborough Cooley
"The boldness here evinced in bringing together and joining in commerce countries far asunder, is constantly exhibited in the geographical speculations of an early or ill-informed age. Distances are then enlarged as expediency requires; hypothesis leaps over the vacant spaces, and forcibly stretches the known portions in the opposite sides of a continent till they meet in the centre. Illustrations of this truth may be found in all ages. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Abyssinia, Congo, and Monomotapa were all supposed to meet together. One of the Jesuits resident in Abyssinia asserts, that salt was carried from that country to Tomboktu." The reasoning which led to this statement was, in its nature, exactly the same as that from which the Arabs inferred an intercourse between Sofalah and Yufi"
http://books.google.com/books?id=380NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA93
"The myth of continents" By Martin W. Lewis, Kären Wigen
"There is also irony in Asantes santicication of Arabic writers such as Ibn Khaldun as exemplars o funiquely African sensibilities....
Ibn Battuta, another prominent scholar from the Maghreb, entertained similarly disparaging ideas. This fourteenth-century geographer was probably the worlds greatest premodern traveler, but he was not at all impressed by the sub-Saharan kingdom of Mali. The many un-Islamic practices of Malis residents appalled him (as did the stinginess of the soverign). To say that Ibn Battuta was more at home in Arabia than in Mali would be an understatement of the highest order. Like Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Battuta ill suits the role of pan-African cultural hero."
http://books.google.com/books?id=C2as0sWxFBAC&pg=PA117
Bellow quote from Page 187 A history of African societies to 1870 By Elizabeth Allo Isichei
"A mysterious passage tells of the visit of a black king from the desert edge state of Zafun to the Almoravid capital of Marrakesh. He rode his horse into the palace. The Commander of the Muslims met him on foot, wheras the [king of] Zafun did not dismount for him he was tall, of deep black complexion and veiled."
http://books.google.com/books?id=3C2tzBSAp3MC&pg=PA187
Last quote from this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dncFIFYPIXE
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It is very important to take mistranslations into account
"Translation and the Colonial Imaginary: Ibn Khaldun Orientalist", by Abdelmajid Hannoum © 2003 Wesleyan University.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3590803
"Despite the increasing interest in translation in the last two decades, there has been no investigation of the translation of historiography and its transformation from one language to another. This article takes as a case study the translation into French of Ibn Khaldûn, the fourteenth-century North African historian. It considers specifically the translation done by William de Slane in the context of the colonization of Algeria. The Histoire des Berbères, the French narrative of Ibn Khaldûn that relates to the history of Arabs and Berbers in the Maghreb, has become since then the source of French knowledge of North Africa. It is upon that French narrative that colonial and post-colonial historians have constructed their knowledge of North Africa, of Arabs, and of Berbers. The article shows how a portion of the writing of Ibn Khaldûn was translated and transformed in the process in such a way as to become a French narrative with colonial categories specific to the nineteenth century. Using a semiotic approach and analyzing both the French text and its original, the article shows how colonialism introduced what Castoriadis calls an "imaginary" by transforming local knowledge and converting it into colonial knowledge. In showing this the essay reveals that not only is translation not the transmission of a message from one language to another, it is indeed the production of a new text. For translation is itself the product of an imaginary, a creation-in Ricoeur's words, a "restructuring of semantic fields."
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@arabiannight100 actually Amalekites were said to be some of the purest arab blood. Abulfeda the arab scholar said they were pure. Syrians how ever are descended from the Amalekites. I think you mixed with Phoenicians and Canaanites as well.
cracksmoker321 2 weeks ago
the arab is white like bachar al assad sadam hussein ibrahim izzat ali hasan al majid.....and specially like moise, jesus and mohamad prophets
alantmenov 1 month ago
arab are caucasian!! irak syrian lebanese and palestinian jordan are only pure arab. the others like egyptian... Are mixed with black and berber people
alantmenov 1 month ago
syrians and Lebenese are not pure arabs they are mixed with white caucasion blood, i agree sudenese and .somalis are mixed, but they are a lot closer to pure arabs than syrians or Lebenese, Syrians and Lebenese look nothing like other Arabs, for example Egypt Palestine Saudi and iraq, look a lot diffrent.
sonylover999 2 months ago
@sonylover999
who Told u That ? arabs reached syria even before islam ....educate ur self
Syrians are the purest arabs and the best classical arabic speakers
sudanese are arabs too But mixed with blacks
LiKE SUDANESE presedent is of Abbasid origin
arabiannight100 2 months ago
@arabiannight100 ethnically syria and lebanon aint arabs
sonylover999 2 months ago
im sudanese everyone thinks im saudi not even an afro arab! saudi people think im saudi arabian. lol. yes there are loaads of afroarabs
iTuttefruit 3 months ago in playlist Afro Arabs are really Nubians
@egymisraim
Bullshit bobobo
egyptians are in real life are very proud arabs ....But in youtube there are so many fake accounts .
arabiannight100 4 months ago
@arabiannight100 please stop it most people of North africa especially Egypt are not Arabs and they are natives to their lands
your allegation that has no solid base just hurt the Muslims of these countries and show them as a strangers who occupy lands that do not belong to them
your allegation are far from the truth by DNA history and reason
egymisraim 4 months ago
@xNeoZion
morocco,tunisia,lybia,algeria,egypt,lebanon,jordany,syria,iraq lol will be empty if arabs were Kicked LOL
arabiannight100 5 months ago