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Let us not forget the Afronuts have also laid claim to ISLAM and the prophet [pbuh]
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] He relied on them to protect his followers. Why didn't he send his followers anywhere else? The bellow account from Yaqut is kind of inconsistent with the view that all the migrations going north were "slaves" "Medieval West Africa: Views From Arab Scholars and Merchants" P. 40 quote from Yaqut 13th century http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Scholars-Merchants/dp/155876304X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241409685&sr=8-1 [QUOTE][b]The king of Zafun is stronger than the veiled people of the Maghreb and more versed in the art of kingship. The veiled people acknowledge his superiority over them, obey him and resort to him in all important matters of government[/b]. One year the king, on his way to the pilgrimage, came to the Maghreb to pay a visit to the commander of the Muslims, the veiled king of the Maghreb, of the tribe of Lamtuna. The Commander of the Muslims met him on foot, wheras the king of Zafun did not dismount for him. He was tall, of deep black complexion and veiled.[/QUOTE]page 44 From Ibn Sa'id 13th century [QUOTE] (On Kanim) This sultan has authority there over kingdoms such as those of the Tajuwa, Kawar, and Fazzan. God has assisted him and he has many descendants and armies. His clothes are brought to him from the capital of Tunish. He has scholars around him The region where Zaghawa wander is to the east of Manan. They are for the most part Muslims owing obedience to the sultan of Kanim [/QUOTE]The bellow account is about mercenaries who were from Zaghawa (which was mentioned above) and came to Egypt through Nubia. M. A. Shaban http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA110#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE] The sudden and conspicuous appearance of the Sudan amongst the armies of Ibn Tulun in Egypt calls for an explation. [b]Some sources like us to believe that he bought as many as 40,000 Negro slaves and made soldiers out of them to build up an empire of his own. Buying such a number of slaves, let alone training them to be an effective fighting force in a completely unfamiliar territory, would certainly have required more time than the few years that preceded their appearance in Egypt[/b] and subsequently in Syria and on the Byzantine borders in the early years of Ibn Tulun’s rule 868-88 254-70. [b]Other sources more accurately inform us that he “enlisted” these Sudan in his army.[/b] Curiusly enough Muhammade ‘Ali, the ruler of Egypt in the early nineteenth century, did the same thing and we know that when he unsuccessfully deployed such men in these very areas against the Ottomans, the failure of the experiment was attributed to the fact that these men had no motive to fight in a foreign land…..[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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