| To Apologize, & There's No Room For Compromise. 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 ... |
