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The Original Black African Arabs from Arabia (Part 2)
by OGU EJI-OFO ANNU

Arabia the Daughter of Kush
The classical Greek and Roman writers
commonly accepted the division of
Arabia into Deserta (desert), Felix
(happy), and Petraea (stony). Not much
is known today about the exact
configuration of those divisions. Later
day Islamic Arabic geographers know
nothing of this division, and this is not
surprising since many of those later day
Arabs are actually immigrants that later
acculturated and assimilated into the
culture of the original Black Arabs.
Arab geographers of the Islamic period
divided Arabia generally into five
provinces: The first is Yemen,
embracing the whole south of the
peninsula and including Hadramaut,

Mahra, Oman, Shehr, and Nejran. The
second is Hijaz, on the west coast and
including Mecca and Medina, the two
famous centres of Islam. The third is
Tehama, along the same coast between
Yemen and Hijaz. The fourth is Nejd,
which includes most of the central tableland, and the fifth is Yamama, extending
all the wide way between Yemen and
Nejd. This division is also inadequate,
for it omits the greater part of North and
East Arabia.
A more recent division of Arabia,
according to politico-geographical
principles, is into seven provinces: Hijaz,
Yemen, Hadramaut, Oman, Hasa, Irak,
and Nejd. It has always been the
assertion of experts that certain tribes