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[QUOTE]Originally posted by King_Scorpion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Just call me Jari: [qb] There is a distinction made between Tribes/Groups and inhabitants of a land... [i]Zanj, Ethiopians, the people of Fazzan, the Berbers, the Copts, and Nubians, [b]the people of[/b] Zaghawa, Marw, Sind and India, Qamar and Dabila, China, and Masin... the islands in the seas between China and Africa [b]are full of blacks,[/b] such as Ceylon, Kalah, Amal, Zabij, and their islands, as far as India, China, Kabul, and those shores.[/i] Al-Jahiz(The Zanj) is not saying that the Chinese are black but that there are black populations in China. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ He must no doubt be referring to the aboriginal peoples of southern China rather than the actual Chinese. Even the Han or ethnic Chinese speak of black peoples who once lived in the jungles of the south. [/qb][/QUOTE][/qb][/QUOTE]True and it's an important distinction to make. Especially when it comes to non-African regions. al-Jahiz is probably the best writer during the Middle Ages to use to give a modern audience a glimpse of the time period. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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