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the Moorish Islamic Caliphate of
Cordoba, Granada, and Egypt (i.e. the
Fatimids).
Moors were Africans and Muslims of the
Maghrib (also known as the western
Sudan), who dominated Islam between
the 9th and the 14th century and
established a global empire reaching
from Senegal to the shores of China.
Many of the Moors sailed in an ancient
African ship called the dhow (or Arab
dhow by western historians) which
traditionally travelled the
Mediterranean and Red sea coast of
Africa on to Arabia, India and China.
Altogether there are more than 2 million
black people in Iraq.

esostris-the-great-the-egyptianhercules/when-arabia-was-easternethiopia-part-3-by-dana-marniche
See: Rashidi, “A Historical Overview,”
pp. 17-19;
Rashidi, “More Light on Sumer, Elam
and India,” pp. 168-169. [qtd. in The
Black Presence in the Bible (pg. 152) by
Walter Arthur McCray].
Drussila Houston, Ethiopians in Old
Arabia
Ivan Van Sertima et al, African Presence
in Early Asia
Martin Bernal, David Chioni Moore,
Black Athena Writes Back p.461.

See
http://www.npr.org/programs/mornin
g/features/2008/nov/basrawis/index.h
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The Seven Great monarchies of the
Ancient World, Vol. 1 (07) p. 35

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Dana Marniche, When Arabia was
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