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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [qb] There is a passage from Al-Maqrizi that states the Qibts(Arabic name from Egyptians) during the 1400's resembled Nubians,Abyssianians,Syrians and Greeks. He attests to the fact that during this period Egyptians were hetrogenous and varied greatly and a good portion of them could pass for Abyssinians and Nubians. The hetrogenous nature of Egyptians at this time probably is the reason why Arabic writers did not count Egypt as part of Bilad-al-Sudan. Another Arabic writer named Ibn Butlan stated that the people of Said were mostly dark and very few people with pale faces could be found amongst them. Considering Ibn Butlan was an Iraqi Arab I am assuming he was probably tanned so the people in southern Egypt he saw had to be considerably darker. [/qb][/QUOTE]This makes perfect sense. I knew Arab writings mentioned Egyptians as mostly but not entirely black. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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