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The Arabs used to take pride in their darkness and blackness and they had a distaste for a light complexion and they used to say that a light complexion was the complexion of the non-Arabs Al Mubarrad, 9th century born in Basra, Iraq.
these tribes with the exception of the Harasis have a tradition of African origin, the order of their local antiquity being Shahara, Bautahara, Mahra, Qara. The South Eastern Borderlands of Rub-al Khali Bertram Thomas vol. 73 (LXXIII) No. 3 March 1929. on the descendants of Kahtan (Joktan).
The inhabitants of this part of Arabia nearly all belong to the race of Himyar. Their complexion is almost as black as the Abyssinians
cited in Geography of southern Arabia by Baron von Maltzan in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 16, No. 2 p. 121 published between 1871-1872, on the tribes of Southwest Arabia near modern Yarim the Aram of Genesis.
The people of Dhufar are of the Qahtan tribe the sons of Joktan mentioned in Genesis: they are of Hamitic or African rather than Arab types in A Periplus of the Persian Gulf Arnold Wilson. The Geographical Journal Vol. 69l, No. 3 March 1927, pp. 235-255. See page 236.
There is a considerable mass of evidence to show that there was a very close resemblance between the proto-Egyptians and the Arabs before either became intermingled with Armenoid racial elements.
Written by anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith see p. 61 The Proto-Dynastic Egyptians , Gorgias Press, 2007 originally published 1923.
In the 9th century Photus of Constantinople in his Bibliotheca quotes the Greek Nonnos of 533 AD saying the Ethiopians, Himyarites and Saracens were the most powerful nations of this time
(Sir Richmond Palmer p. 207, Bornu Sahara and Sudan 1970, originally published 1936 by John Murray).
Terms to Know
bin or banu (beni) son or children of
The Yemen the name for the southern parts of Arabia including what is now the area of the modern nations of Hadramaut, Yemen, and southern parts of Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Canaan the name of a tribe and their land in western Arabia south of Mecca stretching from the southern Hejaz and Tehama southward into the Himyarite region of Yemen. Some emigrated north before 1200 B.C. and named the region of Canaan in Syria after themselves. Also considered cursed with blackness in later Eurasiatic tradition.
Ad or Ait known also as Athir (Adhar) in Arabian tradition the Gether of the Genesis book. The Adites called sons of the fire mist after Adah their ancestral mother were considered by Medieval Muslim writers to be the same people as the Mahra and Shahara. The mythological man from Ad was Adapa in Babylonian texts whose name was also that of the ancient ruler Ityop of Abyssinian king lists. In Greek legend Ethiopais, son of Ethiops is a title of Bacchus/Dionysus. (Garnier, 2006, p, 38)
Qahtan- name for the ancestor of ancient Sabeans and Himyarites. Brother of Peleg or Faligh in Arabic and Hebraic tradition. He is also known as Joktan.
Yemen as with the rest of Arabia is a rich mixture of populations including the original Arabian people, and later Iranians (Persians) as well as the Byzantines and Turks numerous slaves brought in from all over surrounding world. Turks and other subjected people of the Turks also played a part in settling the Yemen as Egypt and North Africa. Not too long ago in about the year 1900 British colonial observer of the British Yemeni Society remarked, If Turks were thrown out of Yemen a wonderful field of commerce would be opened (Zwemmer, 1900, p. 62)
The descriptions of the Arabs of both the Yemen in the south and the northern part of the Arabian peninsula in early Christian and Islamic times, say the people were largely still of dark-brown or black African appearance with kinky hair. While people that were fair-skinned were recognized by Arabs as descendants of subject peoples and slaves.
On the monuments of the eighteenth dynasty, men of the White race are frequently represented, but chiefly as slaves, or as foreigners ; and they may always be distinguished by the profile from the Egyptians.
-The races of man : and their geographical distribution (1850) by Charles Pickering
The Pharaohs warred with Asiatics, and especially with what is now called Caucasian races ; and the monuments show that red, white, and yellow slaves taken in war were far more numerous than the blacks.
-Slavery in history By Adam G. De Gurowski (1860)
"The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips,
broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin."
-- Herodotus, 450 BC
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