How did Sudan become an Arab nation?

I was told by one guy who claimed to be an expert in Middle East.

He said that the ancient Arab, especially the Quraish Tribe, were described in Sahih Al Bukhary as white-men looking with light skin complexion and sharp nose bridge.

I have attempted to find the source in Sahih Al Bukhary but failed. Can someone verify it?

Edited by Killabee - 16-Mar-2007 at 17:13

I would have absolutely no idea what a moroccan or algerian would be speaking, even though they allegedly claim it is arabic.

I thought this is so due to european colonization, especially algeria.

But I find this kinda funny though, since (to me at least) I don't really find Khaliji or iraqi accents any better than the ones you mentioned. Levant accents are the easiest to understand. Egyptian ones are easy also, but only because of their widespread entertainment industry.

Basically, mix an uneducated population, with a little bit of forced western cultural assimilatory practices, and you'll have a distorted dialect.



Edited by Super Goat (^_^) - 16-Mar-2007 at 20:59

As Omar said, it is hard to believe that the colonization periods caused the dialects. However, you can say that the Classical Arabic use has been undermined by the colonization era to some extend.

That is funny, because those elite-looking fellows are those who demand instituting Arabic as the only national language.

True. Though this trend is enforced lately by Boutaflika's policies. Algeria did not encounter that issue primarly before Boutaflika's time. In fact, the president before him, Liamine Z�roual, was in fact a berber from Kabyla region.

Hey Hey! Do I have to drag you both by the ears? Open up a separate topic about Algeria... Isn't this about Sudan?

 Islam spread to Indoesia, that is today, by trade.First part, where Islam spread was peninsula called Aceh in 13 th century.By 16 th century, all of Aceh region was true and true Muslim in term.This is still considered a hot zone for Islamic as they say ''extremism'' by some other Muslims

Muslims came to Java around 15 century.They werent as succesful as in Aceh there, but in time and after king of Java accepted Islam all became Muslim.And it is true, that Islam is universal faith.For example, island of Maldives, was never conquered by Muslims.In 1138 Muslim traders of spices came to that Islam, persuaded Budhist king to accept Islam, and today there is some 10 000 mosques in this island nation of 350 000.So, imagine all the rush.Budhism was replaces by Islam, in one single year.Muslims also came to Ceylon, traded, but they werent as succesfull in converting Budhist king.Though they did have some success on eastern part of Island, which is today majority Muslim, but only in this part.Same goes with Mellaca and many other towns


Sudan became Muslim firmly by 14 century.Nubia kingdom was a Christian ones, and Nubians became Muslims around that time.Nubia was bit bigger in area, then present day Nubia.I believe it stretched to Khartoum of today.Sudan borders were created in 1955.Places, where Muslims never entered like Dinka area in the south, became part of Sudan.As for Arabization,i really dont know.Somalis are Muslim proud people, but still Somali, and Somalia is closer to Arab world.I dont know, maybe they chose to be Arabized, or something

Here is what I found on an article from sudanseseonline.com:

 

If we gave  glance to the Arabian tribes in Darfour region as a race , we notice that they are not pure Arab , they are mixed with local African races , the Arab in Darfour region only  inherited the language and some traditions  from the Arabian folk , they are a mixture we should not call them Arab the suitable terminology for them is an Afro-Arab tribes , they are black skinned you cant even differentiate between them and the original African people in Darfour , so what is always mentioned in the western T.V channels and newspapers is a big lie , because the Arabs who are accused by Darfour rebels of ethnic cleansing  , they also suffer the same unstable circumstances and war disadvantages , they are  war victims and lack many urgent needs , they are victims of the conspiracy that is planned by the rebels .

http://www.sudaneseonline.com/en2/publish/Articles_and_Analysies_12/Is_the_janjaweed_an_Arab_by_Mr_Ismail_A_Mohamed-U__68.shtml

Interesting article Killabee, especially this paragraph:

Edited by �ok ge� - 27-Apr-2007 at 14:11