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  2. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

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    The United Arab States was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen from 1958 to 1961. [15]The title of the book refers to Arabs without using the definite article "the" (Arabs instead of the Arabs) because, according to the author, the meaning of the word has repeatedly changed over time, making it "misleading" to use. [16]

  3. Banu Muzaina - Wikipedia

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    Banu Muzaina (Arabic: بنو مزينة) was an Arab tribe during the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.They were involved in the Expedition of Zayd ibn Harithah in September, 627 CE, 6AH of the Islamic calendar [1] A platoon, under the leadership of Zaid bin Haritha, was sent to Al Jumum, the habitation of Banu Salim, in the same year.

  4. Tribe of Shabazz - Wikipedia

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    The name may be related to the Arabic words sha'b (شَعْب) 'a people', and 'azz (عَزّ) 'to be mighty or glorious'.. However, the name's etymology is possibly also related to Indo-European as there is a similar Persian name, Shahbāz (شهباز) meaning 'royal falcon' or 'eagle' (a contraction of shāh, "king" and bāz "hawk, falcon"), popular among Bosnian, Turkish, Indian, and ...

  5. Yakub (Nation of Islam) - Wikipedia

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    As a group of people distinct from the Original Asiatic Race, the white race are bereft of divinity, [12] being intrinsically prone to lying, violence, and brutality. [13] According to the Nation's teachings, Yakub's newly created white race sowed discord among the black race, and thus were exiled to live in the caves of Europe ("West Asia"). [14]

  6. Kalash people - Wikipedia

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    The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000 year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture. The researchers thus believe they may be a drifted Ancient Northern Eurasian stock from which some of the modern European and Middle Eastern population also descends.

  7. People of the Book - Wikipedia

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    People of the Book, or Ahl al-Kitāb (Arabic: أهل الكتاب), is a classification in Islam for the adherents of those religions that are regarded by Muslims as having received a divine revelation from Allah, generally in the form of a holy scripture.

  8. Mozabite people - Wikipedia

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    In 767, a refugee Persian Ibadi leader founded the Rustamid Kingdom, leading to most of the Berber population adopting Ibadi Islam. After being defeated at Tiaret by the Fatimids in 911, they were banished to Ouargla in the Sahara [ 5 ] and founded an independent state in the M'zab in 1012.

  9. Banu Daws - Wikipedia

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    Located south of Mecca, it is a branch of the Zahran tribe, [1] among its leaders Tufayl ibn Amr, one of Muhammad's companions. [2] Abu Hurairah also hails from the Daws tribe. There are Islamic prophecies with regards to 'End-Times' that have quoted the tribe; like the following by Abu Hurairah: