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[QUOTE]Originally posted by L': [QB] Here is a quick quote I will post: What Happened to the Ancient Libyans? Chasing Sources across the Sahara from Herodotus to Ibn Khaldun By Richard L. Smith [QUOTE]In classifying the peoples of North Africa, Procopius offered the fewest categories, Libyans and Maures, friend and foe. He served as court historian for Emperor Justinian in the sixth century and wrote political and military history, not ethnography. While his division has some basis in location, it is essentially a political one.( n33) On the other extreme are Ptolemy and Ibn Khaldun, both of whom refer to scores of people. One of the most curious systems of categorization comes from Ibn Hawqal, who wrote in the late tenth century. A native of Baghdad, he traveled extensively in the western regions of Islam, where his curiosity led him to gather much information about the Sahara. At one point in his work, he suddenly announces that his readers may become confused by the many Berber clans and tribes he mentions, so to help matters he divides them into the "pure Sanhaja" and the "Banu Tanamak," the difference being that the latter "were originally Sudan [black] whose skin and complexion became white because they live close to the North."( n34) He lists nineteen names under the pure Sanhaja and twenty-two under the Banu Tanamak without indicating whether these are political, cultural, geographic, social, or linguistic in nature. Nor does he specify the difference between the Sanhaja and other Berbers.[/QUOTE]It's about 43 pages long, but I think it's pretty good. Edit: Guess there is no need for a download: [URL=http://www.scribd.com/doc/47380553/What-Happened-to-the-Ancient-Libyans-Chasing-Sources-across-the-Sahara-from-Herodotus-to-Ibn-Khaldun-%E2%80%93-Richard-L-Smith]Read Here[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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