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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] If you don't mind me asking, what population movements within the last couple of centuries would have "whitened" people like the Yafi and Nejd? I do believe the first South Semitic speakers (e.g. the Sabaeans and their forerunners in southern Arabia) would have been quite dark, but they lived a long time before those photos were taken. [/qb][/QUOTE]We know that major migrations into Arabia have occurred since at least the Late Bronze to Iron Ages with Babylonian and Assyrian colonies in the oases and in the Gulf coasts. The biggest population movement in my opinion to "whiten" the tribes of the inner desert and Yemen and Oman were the Iranians of the Sassanian Empire. [b]Sassanid Period (570–630 CE)[/b] [IMG]https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/111618-26-Ancient-History-Yemen-South-Arabia-768x570.jpg[/IMG] With the fall of the Sassanid Empire and the rise of Caliphate many of these white Iranian types became Arabized especially during the Abassid Empire and either married into Arabian tribes or became attached clients to the Arabian tribes. It is these Arabized Persians and other types that lightened up many Yemenis and others. By the way, I never bought into Dana's or rather Tariq Berry's and others claims of the prophet of Islam being "black". I believe there is a lot of evidence suggesting that Muhammad and his tribe were not originally Arabians but a north Semitic people from either Jordan or Syria if not Arabized and that the original Mecca of Islam lay somewhere in that region but I digress. The point is Islam made intermarriage more common and I remember Ausar saying how "white women" were popularly fetishized as exotic among Arabian men similarly as in India where fair-skin was idealized as exotic elite beauty. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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