Early Afro-Arab relations
Early Afro-Arab relations<br /><br />The Negroland of the Arabs examined and explained: <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=380NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA93 <br /><br />quoting Ibn Battuta <br /><br />"Ibn Batutah: the river descends to Yufi (Nufi), one of the greatest kingdoms of Negroland" <br /><br />quoting Ibn Khaldun <br />On the other side of Africa Ibn Khaldun says <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=380NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA117# <br /><br />the Abyssinians (Ethiopians)..From their country Yemen once had its kings…. They believe that they are destined to become masters of Yemen and all Arabia <br /><br />Bellow is from <br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-West-Africa-Scholars-Merchants/dp/155876304X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241409685&sr=8-1 <br /><br />"Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab scholars and Merchants" by Jay Spaulding and Nehemia Levtzion <br /><br />P. 40 quote from Yaqut <br /><br />The king of Zafun is stronger than the veiled people of the Maghreb and more versed in the art o kingship. The veiled people acknowledge his superiority over them, obey him and resort to him in all important matters of government <br /><br />page 44 <br /><br />From Ibn Sa'id <br /><br />This sultan has authority there over kingdoms such as those of the Tajuwa, Kawar, and FazzanGod has assisted him and he has many descendants and armies. <br /><br />Link to Timbuctoo the mysterious <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=OYELAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA285 <br /><br />The scholars of Timbuctoo yielded in nothing to the saints and their miracles. During their sojourns in the foreign universities of Fez, Tunis, and Cairo, ' <br /><br />The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach see 3rd footnote page 307:<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=u9QKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA307 <br /><br />Niabuhr: " Mohammedan merchants in Cairo, Jeddah, Surat, and other cities, are glad to buy boys of this kind; they have them taught writing and arithmetic, carry on their extensive business almost entirely through negro slaves, and send them to establish business places in foreign countries.
