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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] [QUOTE] It is said that from their home in Yemen, (the Tubba's) used to raid Ifriqiyah and the Berbers of the Maghrib. Afriqus b. Qays b. Sayfi, one of their great early kings who lived in the time of Moses or somewhat earlier, is said to have raided Ifriqiyah. He caused a great slaughter among the Berbers. He gave them the name Berbers when he heard their jargon and asked what that [i]"barbarah"[/i] was. This gave them the name which has remained with them since that time. When he left the Maghrib, he is said to have cncentrated some Himyar tribes there. They remained there and mixed with the native population. Their (descendents) are the Sinhajah and the Kutamah. This led at~Tabari, al~Jujani, al~Masudi, ibn al~Kalbi, and al~Bayhaqi to make the statement that the Sinhaja and the Kutamah belong to the Himyar. [b]The Berber genealogists do not admit this, and they are right.[/b] [b]... All this information is remote from the truth. It is rooted in baseless and erroneous assumptions. It is more like the fiction of storytellers.[/b] ... There is no way from Yemen to the Maghrib except via Suez. The distance between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is two day's journey or less. It is unlikely that the distance could be traversed by a great ruler with a large army unless he controlled the region. This, as a rule, is impossible. In that region there were the [i]Amalekites and Canaan in Syria[/i]... There is, however, no report that the Tubba's ever fought against one of these nations ... Furthermore the distance from the Yemen to the Maghrib is great, and an army requires much food and fodder. ... Again, it would be a most unlikely and impossible assumption that such an army could pass through all those nations without disturbing them, obtaining its provisions by peaceful negotiation. [b]This shows that all such information (about Tubba' expeditions to the Maghrib) is silly or fictitious. ... Assertions to this effect should not be trusted; all such information should be invstigated and checked with sound norms. The result will be that it will most beautifully be demolished.[/b] [b]ibn Khaldun[/b] [i]The Muqaddimah[/i] Oran, ~1377 Introduction I,14-16 [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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