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Later Arabic writers and geographers,
such as Hamadani’s “Arabian
Peninsula,” Bekri and Yaqut’s
geographical and historical dictionaries,
and similar works also provide
extremely valuable information.
However, those works are to be treated
with caution because they contain
fabulous and legendary traditions,
partly based on native popular legends
and partly on Jewish and rabbinical
fancies.
From the available literature and
authorities, historians have broadly
divided Arabs into three classes
according to their different great
ancestors. They are:
The original Black Arabs, who were
supposedly punished by destruction and
deluge because, in the book of Quran,
they disobeyed their Prophets (pbuta)
and flouted God’s instructions; they
were: Ad, Thamud, Tasam, Jadeis, Imru.
The classical Black Arabs, who are
believed to have descended from
Yaarub ibn Yashjub ibn Ghatan and thus
called Ghataniyun. They had lived in the
Yemen; they included a number of
tribes and sub-tribes, two of which
became historically prominent viz.,
Himyar and Kahlan (al’arab al’ariba).
The Arabized Arabs, These tribes
immigrated into Arabia from different
sections of central Asia. Many of them
intermarried with the desert dwelling
nomadic blemmyes – the Bejas (original
Bedouin Arabs) and the Somali, Kenyan
and Ethiopian tribes of Africa. Their mix
-blood children who adopted a mingled
form of their parent’s cultures are

known as the Arabized Arabs (al ‘arab al
musta ‘riba).
Today, upon the dictates of the western
intelligentsia, this branch is the socalled prototypical Arabs. They are the
picture boys of the White-Semitic
theories which seek to claim that some
white or at the very least some off-white
people were and remain the original
and only Arabians.
By employing vague and non-categorical
semantics with words like “Semites,”
‘Hamites,” “Ishmaelites,” “Caucasoids,”
the Western Negro-phobic intelligentsia
and educational establishment seek to
erase every trace of black Africa from
Arabia.
Nonetheless, if one understood Arab
culture it is immediately apparent that
Blackness is highly cherished
conceptually and in reality.
In Arab culture the best camel is the
black one the best fig is the blackest, the
best eyes are black, the best olives are
black, the most beautiful rock is the
Black Kaaba.
Any Bedouin Arab that is asked his
color, would undoubtedly respond
Asmar or Aswad which means
Black/Brown.
No Arab ever describes himself as Bidan
which means White because they all
understand instinctively if not
consciously that Africa is their root.