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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] Oh well I guess our Civil War hypocritian has gone with the wind. Some 19th Century Physical Descriptions of the Rebia tribes of the Qays ibn Ailan and of the tribes of the Tayyi and Azd. 1881 - G. Rawlinson wrote, “The Cha’ab Arabs, the present possessors of the more southern parts of Babylonia are nearly black and the ‘black Syrians’ of whom Strabo speaks seem to represent the Babylonians.” From The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World: Or, The History, Geography, and Antiquites of Chaldœa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia, Vol. II Elsewhere, Rawlinson refers to the Ka’b or Cha'b of the Banu Amir and their sub-tribe of Montefik (or the al-Muntafiq bin Uqayl bin Ka’b bin Rabi'a) as having the complexion of “Abyssinians” and “Galla” Ethiopians. from Vol. 1 of The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient World: Or, The History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chaldea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia and Sassanian aor new Persian Empire. , Vol. 1 (07) p.35. The Ka'b bin Rabi'a (part of the Banu Amir bin Sa’Sa’ah of the Hawazin) were domiciled in Iran (Khuzestan) in the 19th century. The Iranians called the Ka’ab (Ka'b or Cha’ab), “Tsiab”. While it has also been written Chub or Qub. The Kilab and Montefiq bin Uqayl also belong the Ka'b and are closely related to the Khafaja and Afik and Numayr ibn Kassit. The Ka'b have another clan among them called Khazraj. In 1885, the British Surgeon General Edward Balfour put out the Encyclopedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, which in copying Rawlinson speaks of the Ka'b as a “tall, martial race, strong limbed and muscular” well known for their pirate exploits in the Persian Gulf. They still occupy in this time “the lower part of Mesopotamia”. 1894 – Another adventurer describes the Arab inhabitants of Khuzestan, “The faces and limbs of these Arabs were almost black from constant exposure to the sun. They were nearly naked and their hair was plaited in long tresses shining with grease…” p. 85 of Henry Layard’s, Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia, published 2003 - first publishing 1894. The Muntafiqbin Uqayl “a subdivision of the Khaza’il” were called “the most powerful tribe in southern Babylonia” see in E.J. Brills First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913 – 1936 ) by M. Th. Houtsma. The Khafaja, a branch of the Muntafik commanded the road from Basra to Kufa in Mesopotamia (Iraq) as late as the the 19th century. The Khaza’il inhabitants of the town of Lamlun are also described both as "resembling" the Bishariin who live in Nubia and Sudan and as “Melanian” by Lenormant. (See also Richard Francis Burton The Book of the Sword republication in 2006, fn. on p. 143. 1878 - According to Francois Lenormant in, La Magie Chez les Chaldaens, “Part of the marshy region around the Persian Gulf was inhabited by people who were nearly black. A remnant of these are yet extant in the Lamlun whom the French traveler, Texier has described and who are allied …to the Bisharis…” p. 518-519. (Some genealogists consider the Khaza'il and Banu Lam tribes of Tayyi origin who came much earlier than the Qays into the region from Yemen.) The other tribes of markedly black Arabs still stretching from the Nejd or Central Arabia to the Persian Gulf were the Dawasir whose ancestors are the Azd and whose descendants were the Taghlib bin Wa'il the brethren of Bakr bin Wail tribes (Banu Shayban, Hanifah, Numayr ibn Qassit). 1844 -- Charles Forster - “The marked distinctiveness of the Dowaser Arabs” says “this striking difference in height and color from the surrounding tribes is not confined to the Dowaser. The phenomenon reappears among the Arabs of the Persian Gulf …" 1829 - “The Dowaser are said to be very tall men, and almost black. In former times they used to sell at Mekka ostrich feathers to the northern pilgrims, and many pedlars of Mekka came here in winter to exchange cotton stuffs for those feathers.” See John Lewis Burkhardt, Travels in Arabia. Vol. 1. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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