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[QUOTE]Originally posted by awlaadberry: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by awlaadberry: [qb] Read this: The Tuaregs The Tuaregs are nomadic people and desert dwellers. The Tuareg are either Messufa, Lamtuna, or Judaala, who traced their ancestry back to the Sanhaja. The Sanhaja traced their lineage back to the Himyar who are people of Southern Arabia. They, however, lived among the Berbers before crossing the Sahara and settling in West Africa. They are the founders of the city of Timbuktu. They contributed scholarly and commercially to the legacy of Timbuktu. Today, the Tuareg live in Mali and Niger. http://www.timbuktufoundation.org/people.htm Here's the translation of the article that started this topic: The Tuaregs Reject the Claims of the World Amazigh (Berber) Congress We, at the website Rif Today, received a letter from Mr. Mansour Mohamed Ali Ag Hudyata as President of an association in Mali called The Northern Youth of Mali Association. The letter rejects the claims of the World Amazigh (Berber) Congress that the Tuareg people are Berbers. The following is the text of the letter as we received it: Indeed the Northern Youth of Mali Association strongly rejects the lies that the World Amazigh (Berber) Congress is spreading through the media that the Tuaregs of Mali and Niger belong to the Amazigh (Berber) people. The Northern Youth of Mali Association confirms that these claims are lies which have no scientific basis and that Mr. Belqasim Lonis, who specializes in chemistry, has no background in history in order to prove the truth of this myth. Indeed all of the reliable history books confirm that the Tuareg are of Arab origin and that the Tuareg alphabet are related to Arabic writing and this is the Tuareg origin that has been known since time immemorial. We consider those false tales about the origin of the Tuareg meddling in the affairs of the Tuareg by clients working for others with connections with suspicious groups. Consequently, we affirm strongly that we will not allow the hired World Amazigh (Berber) Congress, whom we have no connections with, to meddle in our affairs and to speak about our origin. And we confirm that we, the Tuareg people of Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu, are proud of our nations (Mali and Niger) that we belong to and we are proud of our upright religion - Islam. And we declare that our goal is to attain security, stability, peace, and progress in the great Sahara for the happiness of our people and for all tribes of the great Sahara to live in harmony. This is the position of every Tuareg who struggles at all places and all times to achieve these goals. Dr. Mansour Mohamed Ali Ag Hudyata President http://amazigh-cause.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_877.html Explorer et al, Did you hear what he said about not meddling in the affairs of the Tuareg by making false claims about their origin? That applies to you, too. [/qb][/QUOTE]Obviously a letter from someone who is not associated with a Kel or other known agency representing Tuareg identity, history or culture does not constitute anything that can be used on any grounds as proof of anything. Legends and folk traditions are fine if they come from authentic sources. However, that does not change the fact that biological evidence is going to always have more weight in any historical analysis than folk traditions alone. That does not always mean they disagree, because sometimes they do. There are various kels associated with the Tuareg spread among various regions in North Africa, some with more Arab blood than others. Some have more European blood than others. That does not mean that the Tuaregs as a whole originated in Europe or Arabia. They primarily derive from native Africans and then took on some mixture from these other groups in some cases. [/qb][/QUOTE]Wow! Talk about pig-headedness! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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