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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ I believe Dana associates the Beja with the Saracens and others of the Hejaz. Many people are unaware that the first Islamic invasions or expansion known as 'Al-Fatiha' was done by people who were [i]not[/i] called Arab but 'Saracens' and in fact the Romans distinguished the two peoples. There were in fact [b]3[/b] distinct groups who inhabited the Arabian Peninsula according to Hippolytus of Rome and Uranius during the first half of the third century: the Saraceni, the Arabes, and the Taeni. The Saraceni are associated with the northern region of Arabia Petraea, the Arabes with Arabia Deserta and the Taeni with Arabia Felix. Perhaps the most telling source comes from soldier and historian Ammianus Marcellinus who [URL=https://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2023/01/saracens-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-customs-late-fourth-century-ce/]wrote this[/URL]: [i] However, the Saraceni, whom we never found desirable either as friends or as enemies, ranged up and down the country in a brief space of time and destroyed whatever they could find. In doing so, they were like rapacious kites which, whenever they have caught sight of any prey from on high, seize it with swift swoop and quickly take off. Although I recall having told of their customs in my history of the emperor Marcus [in one of the lost books], and several times after that, yet I will now briefly relate a few more particulars about them. [b]Among those ethne whose original home extends from the Assyrians to the cataracts of the Nile and the frontiers of the Blemmyians (Beja),[/b] all alike are warriors of equal rank. They are half-nude, wearing dyed cloaks down to the crotch, ranging widely with the help of swift horses and slender camels in times of peace or of disorder. No man ever grasps a plough-handle or cultivates a tree, none seeks a living by farming. Instead, they roam continually over wide and extensive tracts without a home, without fixed settlements or laws. They cannot endure the same sky for long and the sun of a single district never makes them content.[/i] So apparently there has been intercourse between the Eastern Deserts of Africa and Arabia [i]before[/i] the Islamic Period let alone during that time which may explain the West Asian paternal ancestry found among Beja as Lioness cites. This supports Swenet's point about "From Shur to Havilah". Here's another source that tries to pinpoint the origins of the Saracens farther south in Arabia- [URL=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:id=saraceni-geo]SARACE´NI[/URL] Anyway, I have a lot more info on the Saracens which deserves a topic on their own but the point is that these same Saracens were also identified as BLACK to the point that Saracen became as synonymous with black as the word Moor was though Moor was identified with Africans while Saracens with Asiatics. And the Saracens were the dominant people of Arabia before the Arabes proper. Yet notice how the latter has completely displaced the former to the point that not many people today has even heard of the name Saracen except in European football (soccer) teams! But the main point that Dana made was that Eurocentrists always stressed 'back-migrations' into Africa but tend to ignore Out-of-African migrations into Asia. Her theory was that Africans have been migrating from the Egyptian Eastern deserts into Arabia not only from the time of Proto-Afrisian speakers but afterwards. Hence the myths of Hagar the Egyptian and African settlements in the Hejaz and Yemen since the Neolithic. [b]Beja[/b] [IMG]https://theafricanhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/0CEB2C2A-7B04-4BA2-9075-14EAC3898A36.jpeg[/IMG] [b]Rashaida[/b] [IMG]https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llffi5hMzH1qevm0qo1_640.jpg[/IMG] To call Africans like Beja "mixed" but not Arabs is not only hypocritical but dishonest. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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