The TRUE Origin of the ARABS REVEALED
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- A cross-upload from one of my older channels (JurmcluckTV), this is my masterclass video essay on the origin of the Arabs, linguistically and culturally. I also describe the various cultures found within the Arab World. Opinions are of course my own, though I accredit Ahmed al-Jallad with the discovery of these incredible findings in the Syro-Jordanian desert and the Arabian Peninsula. الله يحفظك
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This is funny to me because, when I worked in Iraq, I tried to learn Arabic from an audio learning course. When I tried to speak to an Iraq man, he laughed at me. I asked why, did I say it wrong? He said, no, you said it perfectly. You just have a very strong Lebanese accent!
A common misconception these days, is to "assume" that a group of people who speaks Arabic must be Arab. This is not so. Arabic was the "Lingua Franca" of the Levant, especially in commerce. Today many people speak English, but not all of them would call themselves "English".
Yes. Once Hebrew, though revived for quite awhile now, and Aramaic weren't the main language spoken west of Jordan and North of Egypt, Arabic became a pretty dominant semitic language through the trade.
As far as English, ha. So true. And I wish I spoke the native tongue of most of my ancestors. It was 'Anglicized' too long ago.
The funny thing is most people who do speak English and are actually English don’t call themselves English, I mean more of us call ourselves things like American or Australian or Canadian then English our actual ethnic and national lineage.
I agree with you.@@iancraigbintliff9738
All people have ancestry so, who are the fathers of the Arab people? This video is interesting but it is wanting in explaining this question. I know that in Arabic Arab means " mixed " so, who mixed with who, and when did this begin?
That's incorrect the lingua Franca of the Levant was Aramaic and Hebrew
As a Palestinian Christian, I found this video very informative and dispels many myths I have always questioned. Shukran ktir🙂
Prayers for you and your family during this conflict. Jesus is coming soon
@@lordbrain5263amen
Only 2% of palestine is christian Just go to lebanon
@@lordbrain5263people have been saying that for hundreds of years.
Interesting take and review, but this is not completely accurate. As an Iraqi Arab from Northern Iraq, I have to tell you that the Arabs are those who trace their ancestry back to the well known Arab tribes that existed in the Arabian Peninsula, of which they are numerous. You are correct that today, those who speak or come from an Arabic country call themselves Arab. But most Arabs of North African countries are Arabized, with the exception of the Arab tribes that settled and still remain in those respective countries.
You are right about the Qedarite kingdom being the first major Arab kingdom. But the Qedarite Kingdom was situated in Northern Arabia. Because it was mainly situated in Northern modern day Saudi Arabia as well as southern Jordan and southern Iraq. Southern Jordan and Southern Iraq by the way are geographically located in the Arabian Peninsula. So the Qedarites were essentially a Northern Arabian kingdom. However, Arabic was also spoken in more southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula as well as Thamudic(which you mentioned) and other languages. Even the Nabatean Arab Kingdom that appeared around 200 BC was located in the Northern part of the Arabian Peninsula(in modern northern Saudi Arabia and southern Jordan).
Moreover, it's true that the Romans called Northern Arabia Petrea, but what you fail to mention, is that the Romans also named Southern Arabia are Arabia Felix.They also called the central interior part of the Arabian Peninsula, Arabia Deserta. So Arabs were known to be found all over the Arabian Peninsula in ancient times, in various areas in the Arabian Peninsula. The Qedarite Kingdom and then what the Romans called Arabia Petrea, Arabia Felix and Arabia Deserta, were all known to be predominantly located in the Arabian Peninsula.
Now, as for migrations, it's true that Arabs migrated to the Levant in numbers and to Iraq before the coming of Islam. Most Arabs in these regions and even in the Peninsula became Christian before the rise of Islam. The Ghassanids were a case in point, they were Christian Arabs who lived in the North Western part of the Arabian Peninsula and in parts of the Levant. The Ghassanids were a Christian tribe who migrated from Yemen to these more northern regions. In the Eastern part of the Eastern Arabian Peninsula and in Southern and Iraq, there were the Lakhmids. The Lakhmids were also an Arab tribe that migrated to these Eastern regions of Arabia and Southern Iraq from the Yemen. The Lakhmids, like the Ghassanids, were also Christian.
It's also worth noting, that historically, there were two kinds of Arabs that lived in the Arabian Peninsula, namely the Hadhar and the Bedouins. The Hadhar, also known as sedentary Arabs, are those who lived in towns and in more settled areas. The Bedouins were those who lived a more nomadic lifestyle. It's also important to remember, that there were also migrations from Northern Arabia to Southern Arabia as well as Southern Arabia migrations to Northern Arabia and to Iraq and the Levant.
Tribal Arabs today in Iraq and the Levant, mostly trace their origins to famous ancient tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. These tribes predate Islam and even Christianity, in terms of when they came to exist. Iraqis today are 90% tribal Arab, similar to Jordanians, with the rest of the percentage of Arabs, those who have been Arabized. The Lebanese are essentially the descendants of Phoenicians, although they do have Arab admixtures in their heritage. In fact a few tribes in Lebanon are even predominantly of Arab ancestry, from Arab tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.
My tribe has lived in Iraq for over a thousand years, but the migration of our tribe from Arabia to Iraq is well documented. Every tribe in Iraq knows the period in which they migrated from Arabia to Iraq and from which region of Arabia they migrated from. In Syria, the country is 40 percent tribal Arab, with most of the tribal Arabs living in the centrral and eastern regions of Syria. The tribal Arabs in Syria mainly speak the Iraqi and the Najdi dialects of Arabic. The rest of Syrians who claim to be Arabs, are mostly Arabized Arabs, although some of these Arabs might have some admixture of Arab ancestry, as Arabs have indeed lived in these regions in numbers now for a very long time.
In conclusion, we can say that Arabs mainly originated in the Arabian Peninsula, as that's were Arabic was spoken among other languages. Historically you had the Northern Arabs from Northern Arabia and the Southern Arabs from Southern Arabia. That's not to say there weren't also pockets of Arabs in the Levant also in ancient times, but they weren't in significant numbers. The fact that the Qedarite Kingdom was in Northern Arabia and that Arabia Petrea, Arabia Felix and Arabia Deserta were also all located in the Arabian Peninsula, cements the heritage of the Arabs being originally from the Arabian Peninsula.
Sorry but there was no ppl who called Arabs till 800 years ago. There is no Arabs dna. It’s funny that you say Egypt were Arab. . Ppl so called Arabs are mixed ppl
My friend Muhammad pbuh the final and last messenger had a dream when he woke up he shouted Where Are The Arabs!
This is well over 800 years ago.
I am a 60yo East African woman. and a devout Christian. In East Africa we are used to Christians and Muslims coexisting and even inter marrying as we belong to countries that have different religions. Personally I have grown up in this multi religious culture ( including various Indian religions). I respect everyones right to their beliefs. I spent Christmas 2018 in Lebanon on the invitation of a Christian Lebanese friend. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. It helped me to understand much of what this video talks about. Attending a church service on Christmas day held in Arabic opened my mind. Being from East Africa I always knew that the Muslim diaspora is not composed of only of Arabs. However I came to realise that I believed in the stereotype all Arabic speakers were Muslim. It was such an eye opener and a lovely experience to celebrate Christmas in Arabic. It opened my mind to see the diversity of Arabic as a language.
sister, these people learned about god/the gods from us. They use religion to steal our land and subjugate. The Muslim acts pious today, like the Christians do. They are eating Africa. Saudi Arabia is a fake country, where the men who travelled trade roots were propelled into kingdomhood. All that oil is Africas. Look hard at the Saudi - his heart is the same as the Zionists. Europeans used him
to claim North East African, don’t let the fool you! How will your children know if you talk as you do. The “arab” is to Africa as the Zionist is to occupied Palestine. Never forget it.
Egyptians Lebanese Syrians and Iraqis etc are not real arabs. They all had their own languages before islam. Those who converted to islam adopted the arabic language as well. Only those who remained in their previous religion kept their own language. But bedouins are the true arabs in my opinion.
Never realized how big the Arab world is
GOD said to ISMAEL mom, I will make him a great nation. Gen 21:18📜. HalleluYah Amen Glory be to YAH. 🙏🏿🔥❤️👂🏾👀
People in Nothern Africa before Islam were not Semitic, but Hamitic group.
The Arabs are older than what I mentioned and their history goes back to their father Ya`rub bin Sam bin Noah. Most of the Middle Eastern civilizations were ancient Semitic Arabic, some of which became extinct, such as the Thamudic language, and some of which remained, such as Aramaic. However, in the world, all Semitic languages were contained in the Arabic language..
The orginal term Arab has nothing to with religion or language but lifestyle as a Nomad.
Correct and Arabs are not the indigenous natives of the desert . They were iron toting invaders from the North Kingdom & Turkic Ottoman etc. They easily conquered displaced and oppressed the original indigenous Black native peoples. Because like the ancient Egyptians they didn't have iron weapons. Their weapons were made of animal bones,tusk and wood. To ignore the truth is to ignore science, history& the DNA of the ancient buried dead.
My great great grandfather is Moroccan by way of Spain to Mexico, I'm told it's obvious in my features.
The Arabs appeared in history, as you said, in the north of the Arabian Peninsula and the south of the Levant in the ninth century BC, but I believe that they have older roots going back to the Arabian Peninsula itself and to Yemen. It is possible that at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age tribes migrated from the Arabian Peninsula to the north and they are the ones that gave the Arabs mentioned by the Assyrians, Persians, Jews, and Arameans
Depends on archeological evidence. The oldest form of arabic was found in Levant.
@@just_ben1951 But this archaeological evidence is from after Christ, and I am talking about the period before Christ
True
Well, hold on, many of those were not originally Arabic-speaking, and their languages aren't really all Arabic even now. Calling them Arabic, instead of admitting they're separate languages, is political, not objective. As if we pretended that all the Romance languages today are still Latin.
The original language of Egypt is Coptic, not Arabic. And modern "Arabic" in Egypt is pretty heavily influenced by Coptic, to the point of being a different language from classical Arabic.
French, Spanish, and Italian are less different from each other than some of these supposed "Arabic dialects" are from each other.
The rest of Northern Africa was originally Amazigh, and then later Phoenician (which is Semitic), Greek, Latin, and Vandal (Germanic).
And in Persia, of course, Persian.
It doesn't make any sense, when talking about ORIGINS, to refer to these regions as "Arabic".
I enjoyed watching your analysis and theory of Arab origin, despite there is many weak points on it, good luck.
Well done. Nice. Well researched and explained. Keep it up!
Iran has nothing to do with the Arab world or the Arab civilization. Get your history right. Persians belong to the Persian civilization, which was the greatest civilization on the face of the earth until they were invaded by the Mohammedan Arabs in the seventh century.
true. they are their own people too.
Is mohammedan suppose to be an insult? 😂
@@GDL88 Of course not. “Mohammedan” predates the word Islam and Muslims. It was the original term in all historical documents referring to the Muslims.
@@shapursasan9019 really? I never knew that. Are you referring to Arabic historical documents or English?
@@GDL88 Persians, Greeks, Romans, all referred to muslims as "Mohammedans" in the seventh century, when Islam was founded, but I'm not sure if the term originally comes from Arabic or not. I'll do a little research on it and get back to you if I find something...
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Love your channel man. So happy I found it. Shout out from a fellow Libnani!
That was such a clear and helpful introduction for someone like myself who is trying to get more understanding of this beautiful culture. Thank you.
Lebanese food is THE BOMB! Awesome video. Me and my buddy were discussing this the other day.
As far as i know, the Arabs originated somewhere in the frontier region in between Southern Syria & Northern Arabia but later spread towards Arabia where they would pick up a nomadic lifestyle due to the harsh desert lifestyle of the peninsula. Semitic speakers likely have their origins somewhere in the Levant or Arabia but its not exactly agreed where, but i do agree that Yemeni myth of Arabs is just a myth not grounded in historical reality. Either way, an ethnic Arab is someone who belong to a tribal ancestry.
Also, Iran is not an Arabic country.
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There's a lot of lies in this video. Sudan is not an Arab country. Arabs are a minority there. Yes, northern Sudan is majority Muslim but they are not Arab people. Somalia is not Arabic neither.
Arab is not a race, neither Palestinians or Lebanese are arab neither.
Arab is a cultural identity and northern Sudan have Arab blood and speak Arabic, therefore you can extrapolate them as Arab .
Somalilans don't speak Arabic, they are horners who traded, mixed with Arab neighbors, especially Yemenis.
They are part of the same culture, therefore you may consider them Arab.
Informative and well presented. I learned much. Get yourself a media-type as a partner to help you with production. Looking forward to more.
Thank you for sharing apart of my people!!! Hope you do a lot more videos!!! Thank you handsome!!!
Thanks
I like the description “Arabs are a giant Empire with different cultures”
No mention of Yemen ? Look up al azd tribe. They migrated from Yemen to the Fertile Crescent and as far off to Spain and Iran. People from al azd tribe include Phillip the Arab (Roman emperor) Aws and Khazraj, and many prominent Arabs in history
Source. Because everything so far shows that the Jordanians are the pure Arabs
We know all about the Azd, many Arab tribes in Iraq today originated from the Azd.
@@silusmkhwananzi3121 The Qedarite Kingdom and the Nabatean Kingdom were situated mainly in Northern Saudi Arabia and Southern Jordan. In the case of the Qedarite Kingdom, it also included Southern Iraq. All these three areas are known to be situated in the Arabian Peninsular.
This is not entirely accurate. He is leaving out black people, or black Africans who are indigenous to that region, and North Africa. Arabs don't come from Hamites. North Africa and that region he's talking about are descendants of Hamites. The Canaanites descendants from Hamites. The Arabs aren't Canaanites.
I thought Arabs were mixed so how can they have a original origin when they are mixed.?
today ? yes but back then they were just semetic peoples. But arabs today are just a mixture genetically, especially the ones in the levant
The Arabs are mostly from the Prophet Ishmael and Abraham, and some of them are from the Semitic peoples such as Canaan, the Assyrians and others.
@@HkMk-er3vyThat is absolutely false. The original Arabs, the Qahtani who were from Yemen descendants of Qahtan who existed thousands of years before Abraham and his son Ismael. Ismael and Abraham were not Arabs. They were Iraqi.
@@el-Cu9432 My love, I am an Arab and I know in our history books, the Quran and the Messenger confirmed that most of the people are from Ishmael and this is in our heritage and culture. Ishmael is the one who spoke Arabic and this is what the Messenger Muhammad said. Most of the Yemenis are from Ishmael except for a few of them from Africa and from the ancient Semitic Amalekites. Abraham lived in the Levant and Ishmael lived in Mecca.
Just like Chinese, we speak very different dialects, eat different food, act differently, and look different.
Great video Jeem. I’m half Lebanese myself and your message is based on history and common sense
Very interesting...but I heard from another Arab that the original Arabs trace back to some guy from Yemen.
And that Ishmael and his descendants were actually Arabized Arabs.
The Arabs are all from Ishmael, and some of Yemen go back to another prophet, not Ishmael, and most of Yemen are from Ishmael, except for some of them who are descendants of the Prophet.
@@HkMk-er3vy
The Ishmael thing is a complete myth.
Original Arabs are from Southern Arabia and are known as Qahtanian Arabs.
But over centuries, other groups from the Middle East migrated to Northern Arabia and adopted the language and culture.
@@DocRealTalk I am an Arab and I know very well who the Arabs are, my brother. Most of Qahtan is from Ismail, and the evidence is many from history books, the Qur’an, and the hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad. DNA genetics has proven this
@@HkMk-er3vy
First of all, the whole Ishmael story is a myth. It is genetically IMPOSSIBLE for all Arabs to have come from one man.
Qahtan originated in modern-day Yemen.
Ishmael was a son of Abraham.
Abraham was from modern-day Iraq.
Ishmael's mother was Egyptian.
So the Arabs that descend from Ishmael would not be the same as ones originating in Yemen.
What country are you even from?
I tend to think that Arabs originated in Yemen. Yemen is the only place in the Arabian peninsula that gets moisture, during the summer - as part of the Asian monsoons. These winds sweep into the horn of Africa over Somalia and dump the bulk of their moisture on Ethiopia, and whats left falls on the highlands of Yemen and Asir. This allows Yemen to practice agriculture and for the population density to be higher than anywhere else in the Arabian peninsula - but the monsoons winds can be fickle and so from time to time you have extensive droughts and so forcing a reduction in population. This has forced large groups to migrate out of Yemen up into various parts of the peninsula from time to time, right up to the border lands of the Fertile Crescent. This was especially true of the Gazzanids and the Lahkmids who bordered Roman Syria and Sassanian Mesopotamia, respectfully.
The Romans and the Sassanian were locked into a multi-centuried bitter bi-polar war.
In last part of the 6th century and the early part of the 7th century the metropolitan empires were effected by famine (caused by Icelandic volcanoes erupting putting ash in the air and cooling the climate) weekening both but especially Rome. The Sassanians managed to conquer, temporarily Roman Syria and Egypt. At that point, the Ghazzanids and the Lahkmids lost the subsidies they were receiving from the great metropolitan empires. This created the opportunity to for a unity Arab candidate - if he could unify the Ghazzanids in the West and the Lahkmids in the East, they might be able to blind side both the Sassanians and the Romans. Islam is the cohesive force that emerged to unite the Arabs. The standard Islamic narrative almost certainly did not occur in Mecca and probably not in Medina - Mecca was an insignificant watering hole whose place of importance only emerged after one of the first Islamic Civil wars - Mecca was distinctly Arab but not Ghazzanid nor Lahkmid - and so kind of a compromise candidate in the form of an origin story. I think the events that are told concerning Mohammed's life might be true, but I think the locations have been shifted - they took place else where - this is because the descriptions in the Koran of the place does not fit Mecca. The early struggle between the Sunnis and the Shia's is really a struggle between Syrian based Arabs and Mesopotamian based Arabs, or Ghazzanids and Lahkmids. Something like the Standard Islamic Narrative may have occurred, but not where it occurred. By getting an ideology that supported Arab cohesion, by bringing Arabs together when the metropolitan Empires were wracked by famine, plague and war fatigue helped tip the scales in favor of the Arabs. On top of that the standard narrative included a methodology for war making that was very efficient. In developed societies, only the warrior class fights, the peasant class farms. In Islamic narrative everyone is enlisted as a potential soldier. This is my considered opinion as of this writing - I understand it is distinct, and unique, and I don't expect other people to agree. But there it is.
Anyone who is reasonable person knows that nonblack people have only been on the planet for six to ten thousand years and are not human according to science and their own history. Shalom the Arab is a Black. Shalom 😊
@saoham659 Perhaps some of us are unaware that socalled nonblack people are not light skinned Black people as some would have us believe. According to science and their own history they are not human they are hybrids who suddenly appeared six to ten thousand years ago and have no known origins and cannot tell us where they came from. See David Reich of Harvard. As an historian who has had the privilege to study history from primary sources available to serious academics I can assure you that a particular group of Black people called Israelites ie Shemites are responsible for everything associated with civilization and culture throughout history wherever we find modernity and that white surpremacist scholarship has hidden from view the fact that nonblack people are literally pretending to be human ie Black people wherever we find modernity throughout history. Their need to lie about everything associated with civilization and culture is evidence of their inability to invent anything associated with civilization and culture. We are not the same. Black people are autochthonous beings ie Divine Cosmic Beings ie naturally occurring people. So-called nonblack people are a mixture of Homo sapiens sapiens DNA and animal DNA see David Reich of Harvard. Caucasians are literally incapable of telling the truth and producing justice owing to their savage origins. The Wildmen of the Forest have been going around the world eating raping robbing murdering torturing genociding and enslaving innocent Israelites ie Shemites ie E1B1A ie Black people ever since they suddenly appeared during the end of the last ice age. See Anacalypsis by G Higgins and Anna Wilkes and John Ogilvy and Google Black European Royalty and Heraldry and see Black Sambo documentary on RUclips. We are not a religion, we are the religion. We are the salt of the earth. We are the literal children of the Most Most High G-d and we have always been civilzed and cultured throughout history wherever we find modernity. Shalom 😊
Qedar in Hebrew means black and swarthy
Ever wondered why Somalia is the only non Arabic speaking country in the Arab league? Ever wondered why Somalia is the only 100 PERCENT Muslim Sunni NATION on planet earth.
Myth
My Mom is from Beirut, but hereditary she is Phoenician, and their language is missing, it was not aramaic.
Arabs are a group of Semitic people who originally came from the peninsula. The modern idea of an arab or arab country is pretty new, it didn’t really come about until the 19th and 20th century with the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Egypt is now an arab country but ancient Egypt was definitely not. I’d be interested to hear about what happened to the Coptic Christian’s
Semitic is a language group.
Egypt is not a Arab country. Egyptians are not and we’re never now desert nomads.
@@MrAmhara descendants of Shem
@@MrAmhara Egyptians were invaded and conquered by ARABS
The Bible explains who Shem and Ham are. Since Abraham came from Shem, and the Egyptian rulers came from Ham, the Arabs are mixed from both, because Ishmael was born of Abraham and his Egyptian concubine, who was daughter of the pharaoh.
It's not West Asia that's Africa sir research more please and all that is Africa
This is one of the most revealing and comprehensive videos about Arabs I’ve seen. Thank you.
I knew a few things but this video gave me more knowledge.
Sadly a lot of what he is stating is false.
North adricans are not arabs even though they say they are. They are africans who speak an arabic dialect
Idk that I’d call any of those African countries Arab. I mean just because we speak Arabic doesn’t necessarily make us Arab, right? I mean we speak English in America but we’re not English, we’re American.
Americans cinstitute the Anglophone countries. Despite not being English Americans are part of the english culture just like Canaduans and Australians.All the people from these countries more or less think the same.
All of the so called Middle East countries were inhabited by African people. The mixing of Europeans an northern Africans which were Marroccon, and surrounding areas produced the what we know as Arabs. The definition of Islam has taken on different forms and customs over time. So has the prejudices between dark Islam believer and the fairer skinned ones. That mentality derived from Europe during the demand for slave labor.
@@athinarogers5594you mean the slave trade in Africa that was in full swing being conducted by the followers of Islam, when white Europeans came on the scene? You mean that one?
And just to point out, that slave trade, at Arabic Muslim hands, still continues to this day in Africa!
what an intelligent young man. greetings and much respect. love from Türkiye.
Great work. Could you please clarify your sources on the Arabs originating from around Jordan/Southern Levant in the 9th century BC? That is a very interesting piece of information that I have never encountered before
@hiOOxkr magkis How so?
@hiOOxkr magkis I agree with you 💯
All Arab kingdoms prior to Islam were in the levant and Iraq. You can easily figure that out from inscriptions and archeology. The Nabateans were one of those Arab kingdoms that played a huge role in the expansion of Arabic given they were strong and capable merchants. The arab kingdoms were numerous and impactful in the levant prior to Islam, even if you look at the pantheon of Gods, they are all of levant origin like El, and Baal
@@TheUnique69able I am aware about those kingdoms but those are all in the few centuries preceding Islam not stretching back to 800 BC. In that timeline Aramaic/Assyrian and other non Arabic civilizations seem to have dominated Levant and Mesopotamia as far as I know
@@SyrianApostate there is no Aramaic civilization, it’s just a language the Assyrian empire chose as a lingua Franca instead of Akkadian (Assyrian dialect). People at that time didn’t identify themselves on ethnic lines as everyone was of the same blood line. They defined themselves based on polity, kingdoms and geography. Just as the Akkadian’s and later Assyrians conquered other smaller Semitic groups and absorbed them as their own, the Arabs were the latest to absorb Semitic speakers into one large group. This is the beauty of unity and what we should be striving for. The war in Ukraine is clear proof that people still view themselves in cultural ideological lines such as identity as “European” when there is so much more cultural variety than in Arabic speaking countries
Thank you for this breakdown of the Arab Origins. I found it enlightening.
That was great. Thank you for such a scholarly overview of Arab history. The conflation of Arab culture with Islam is a modern political creation which has been used so derisively to polarise opinions with specific objectives for control and power in the region. I’m so glad that you ignored this and it is so refreshing to hear a contextual overview of the development of the Arab world to what it is today. Many thanks.
How do you mean by modern?
Actually is something done by the ummayads not a modern thing at all 😂
@@puraLusaYou mean the Abbasids?
Another huge misconception is Arabic = Muslim . My family are all orthodox. Though calling them strictly Arabic would be a stretch. That whole part of the world, particularly the area under ottoman control were a huge mixing pot.
Thank you for teaching me about my people
No worries brother
I whole heartedly agree with you. English has become a world language for the very same reason that Arabic became so widespread, "TRADE". English, and Arabic are the languages of commerce.
Are Arabs indigenous to Africa…..
The background music is annoying
I have seen pictures of Arabs who are blond and have blues eyes and then rather dark Arabs in Egypt so i assumed it is more culture then a race.
We need more info on this topic
I’ll be doing another video soon about Arab history again my friend
Yup
Great work with this , one small thing to note tho , the Qedarite expansion was exactly that, an expansion. Meaning that Arabs and Arabic spread to those regions, but that doesn’t mean it was indigenous to there. Rather it’s indigenous to south eastern Syria, East Jordan, and northern Arabia which is technically not in the Levant .
However as you said it spread through the Levant during the Qedarite expansion
You should do a video discussing the Lebanese christians, paticularly the Maronites, rejection of the Arab identity.
I will actually. It's an interesting topic considering a lot of the original Arab nationalist writers were maronites or orthodox syrian and lebanese themselves.
@@Jeem196 Modern understanding of Ethnic group is mainly defined by LANGUAGE. Sometimes religion, history, etc.
If we could revive Coptic for the Egyptians, Berber langauges in Maghreb, Nubian for Sudan, Aramaic, etc. and I will tell you, the Arab world would shrink in no time Before the State of Israel, the region was part of the Arab world, now it's a Jewish land since they revived Hebrew and increase Judaism.
@@arolemaprarath6615 bro came here to write his israel fanfic💀
I'm Maronite from Israel. I don't consider myself Arab even though it's my native language. Nothing against Arabs, I just don't see myself belonging to that nation.
@@crusty_twiglong live Israel
Never say again that any country in Africa is arab
All north africa is arab lol
Great topic
Why is it so fun and curious to ask culture questions 😃I’m American Iranian and this is true that Iran is extremely diverse so it makes sense what you say 👍💜
I enjoyed your video. I live in Jacksonville, FL which has one of the largest Arab American communities in the US. (The original Arab immgrants to Jacksonville were feo Rammallah which is now in Palestine on the West Bank. When the original Arabs came it was part of thr Ottoman. empriee .) It surprises many to learn that fact. Many prominent local businessmen and local polliticians are Arab or partial Arab descent. Including the current mayor of Jacksonville, Donna Deegan. (There are many more examples). Since many of the Arab families have been here since the 1890s many, especially fron the older generations have heavy Southern accents. There are many small Arab owned sandwich shops that serve Middle Eastern/Mediterranean specialties like tabouleh, kibbe etc along with Southern classics such as grits and BBQ ribs
My ex-wiife's brother was married into an Arab family, my nieses and nephew are half Arab. Even though we were tangentislly related by marriage, i felt very much in the family. Even cousins of my sister in law's parents treated me as part if thr family if i met them. I always liked how importany family is the the Arab community and keeping up and handing down traditions. Not to to mention the entrepreneurism and heñpong each other to get ahead.
All the weddings were very fun. And the foid delicious.
Most prople in Jacksonville are familiar with Arab culture in sone way. And thry knoe thst some Arabs are Christian, which surprises many.
In fact, each of the three religions arose in an Arabian desert environment filled with camels, palm trees, and tribal wars for water, and their leaders were all descendants of Abraham.
I do not know why the traditional European imagines that Judaism and Christianity are something separate and Islam is something else
Mesmerizing video wish it was longer video.
You are right. So many Yemenis are proudly bragging about a historical fact that says their anisates were actually not Arabs. And that they are descended from different civilizations like the Maeen, Saba or Sheba and Himyar empires. Many Yemeni and Arab historians repeatedly insist that Yemen Arabnisation started with the collapse of the last civilization, which was Himyar Empire, just 100 years before Islam. Thanks for your efforts. Keep it up.
That is just r6bbish
This is straight up fiction, you made it up
Good video. I'm American and my wife is Moroccan, so I'm being steeped in the complexities of Arab cultures and religious tolerances. Your reasoning is easily digestible for me and the cultural mash up you describe is familiar, as half my family is Roma from a part of Eastern Europe with similar complexities. I look forward to more of your videos.
Let's go Rams 🟦🟨🐏😎🌵🏜️⛱️☀️
ههههههههه يتكلم عن اصل العرب وهو متعرب طبعا قناته كلها انقلش لانه لو الفيديو موجه للعرب تعرف ان كلامك مردود عليه ... اي والله عربناهم وصارو كل يوم يطلعون لنا من هم اصل العرب ههههههههه ياخي انتو اضحوكة
وش مرجعك يا اخ طوني المسيحي عن البدو .. والله شف كتاب ابن سعود للكاتب مايكل ههههه .. طيب والكتب العربيه اللي كتبوها اهل البلد اخوي اللبناني !! لا شو هاظ سافاج يع
هو يتكلم وكلامه مسنود الى مصادر موثقه وغيرها وانت مصدرك هوه القرأن المملوء بالاساطير ولازلت غبيا لتضن ان العرب عرق وفي دينك يقولون ان اسماعيل اتى من لا ادري اي مكان وتزوج مع السكان الاصليين وكون العرب
I’m late for this video. I appreciate this young man’s thesis, it has many valid points. Lebanese are Arabs. I have family who are Lebanese they stand by being Arabs. They are not Moslem though.
Homo Sapiens came out of Africa thousands of thousands of years ago. The first wave made it as far as Israel. There is a burial cave that bears witness. Subsequent
movements continued
and evolved to inhabit
areas like the Levant thousands of yrs later. They first touch ground out of Africa in Yemen.
Our first ancient ancestors lived in the
trees of the jungles in
Southern Spain. When
Morocco was still
attached. They dispersed into the jungles of Africa.
You get Homo Sapiens out of the horn into the Southern Arabian Peninsula and here we are. Complicated but yet simple.
The young gentleman presented an in-depth thesis. I’m not sure if Islamic thought aided his thesis, but in reality, we are all ancient. We’ve been around longer than many think and accept.
Arabs come from Yemen and the levant Jordan area From Qahtan in Yemen and from Ishmael in the levant area you should ask a Bedouin brother
I mentioned that, it’s just old folklore ya akh. All of the recent archaeology proves they came from northern Sa’udia and Urdunn. Old yemenites got arabized a bit after. But still very early, the yemenites became Arabs too
That was beautiful!
ALLAH BLESS THE ARABS
Jesus The Allah, yes
@@Deusvulttt Isa***
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz u only corrected isa part? Lol so you do address him as allah?
@@Deusvulttthis just a messenger of Allah like Mohamed and Moses etc..
Actually Ismael, son of Hagar and Abraham, was the first Arab in the 1800bc era. He was a stepbrother to Isaac who was the first Jew, after Abraham became monotheistic, having left Ur. Abraham left Ur, he was an idol maker for the king in a polytheistic society. Ishmael and Hagar fled Caanan and went to live in the desert of Arabia to leave Abraham's wife who was jealous of her for having a child first (Genesis 16).
Later in 1200bc the Phoenician sea people (Philistines) came from the area of Crete. They however didnt intermarry a great deal with the local Arabs and they eventally returned to their origin. The exception being a small amount of gene flow to modern Syrians.
Arabs also didnt become Islamic (as mentioned) until after Mohammed who lived in the 600ad era.
I have a question, when you talk about 'origin' of arabs do you mean the language arabic or arab as an ethno-linguistic group? Because i dont see how some group of people suddenly start speaking a language and thus being originated and identify themselves as such. Is origination a process that takes a long time? Or is it just that there are things like 'the first arab' like Ya'rub or stuff like that. Crazy to think about
No, I do not believe in any 'first arab' ideas, that's all nonsense myths that we've disproved. When I say the first Arabs, I mean the earliest known people that could be reasonably called, Arabs, or practicing what would lead to Arabic culture. They probably did not call themselves Arabs, it was actually a slur at first but it stuck. The very first mention of any Arabs is in 800BC in southern Syria by some Assyrians and Arameans who met them. Arabs and Arabic both came from Nabatean nomadic merchants. They travelled at night using the stars as directions, and wrote in a strange form of Aramaic that heavily slanted and curved the Syriac script, leading to what is now Arabic over time. The original language of the Peninsula, by contrast, looked more blocky, and not connected, like Hebrew or Yemenite. Arabic spread from the Jordanian/Northern Arabia region over many centuries. The Romans referred to Eastern Egypt, Jordan, Mesopotamia, and Yemen as 'Arabia' in different settings. Arabic spread from north to south, the video was made to showcase that and debunk the idea that all Arabs came from some ancestor in Yemen who migrated north. You could reasonably say the Arab culture began before Arabic was a real language. The Aramaic speaking Nabateans were exactly what you would expect a nomadic arab to look and act like
They stole the arab name from african people .mesapatania egyot jordan was african people.
@@marvinpercival4717 ¡Qué idea más estúpida!
@@Artearq7 my comment is not stupid even thiught i cant read spanish to write and respond in your language.
@@marvinpercival4717 Google translater. No hablo inglés y entiendo lo que dices. Has dicho que Mesopotamia, Egipto y Jordania son pueblos africanos. Un absoluto disparate.
Arabs should unite! I am so upset that we have been divided by some colonial powers and are under their control. Our resources and wealth are being exploited. This shit has to go. Arabs should unite.
I am from Turkiye. I look more Arab then European or Asian. I love my Arab sisters and brothers. Nevertheless, I am happy to call myself a Turk. I am more familiar with and connected to my Turkic heritage since I have grown up in Turkiye. I hope Turks will unite again soon. I wish the same for Arabs and Africans.
Agreed
all the historians almost agrees that Yemen is the source of arabs
Those are old historians telling old stories, not today’s archaeological findings ya sadiqi
@@Jeem196 No sir those are scholars not storytellers homie
The old ancient Yemeni inscriptions would like to talk
The ancient Yemenis did not consider themselves as Arabs, as a matter of fact, they differentiate between them and the Arabs
There's no archeological evidence of Arabs originating in Yemen, the first mention of Arabs was by the Assyrian inscriptions describing them from Dumat Aljandal while the ancient Yemenis said they are from Najran, both are in Saudi and extention of Arabian settlements.
I admire you for undertaking to share your knowledge and perspectives about this topic. It is such a broad and deep topic I wouldn't expect that you could cover every detail and every perspective regarding the long historical period that your topic covers. I thought that your main points were helpful for me, and I appreciated the perspectives you shared. Thank you for your work.
Thank you. What an awesome job. I found it very informative and it was explained in a way even us Westerners can understand. I enjoyed the lesson
All from his bathroom...
Fantastic presentation, very well spoken.
Accurate information, thanks for the content and the authenticity
I m half Tunisian. We re culturally Arab but ethnically fairly mixed though predominantly still Berber, and I don t think you have to scratch far to find the Berber roots in our culture
You realise bereber is not one ethnicity it is a term used by romans for anyone who live in north afriaca
Vandals ,native tribes ,cannaite ,romans and greek and many more lived there
And arab is knowen by his lineague
I dont know what is the idea if u speak arabic mean u are arab ,this is against islam
The picture you depicted as Sudanese women are actually Ethiopian or Eritrean not Sudanese.
You've done a better job, bro, than the Arab-Christian scholar Albert Hourani, who starts his massive "History of the Arab Peoples" with the rise of Islam, falling to the same fallacy that most "Orientalist" Western scholars do.
I hear different stories I might have to get a book
heyyy new sub here great vid bud 😍
I know that the matter is confusing.. I am sure that if Islam was revealed in the Babylonian language, all Arab countries today would be speaking the Babylonian language .... It is certain that all the peoples of the region originally belong to the Semitic race and their languages are closely related, and the language of any people can spread easily if it is available to it The ingredients are the same as those possessed by the Arabic language, while preserving some privacy for each dialect. The Arabic language is divided into southern - Tihama, Yemen, Hadramawt and Oman - northern which includes Najd, Gulf, Hijaz, Levant, Iraq and Sinai... And of course the North Arabic language imposed itself by virtue of the fact that Islam appeared in the Quraish tribe and Hijaz in general.
What dialect is the Qurayshi Arabic most similar to today? Modern Hijazi, or more similar to the dialects spoken in Najd?
@@Jeem196 It is not easy to identify the Quraish dialect, is it fusha or is it a local dialect? We know that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was sent immediately after his birth to the tribe (Bani Saad) because of the need to breastfeed and also in order to learn fusha from that tribe famous for eloquence... We can almost say that the Bedouin tribes between Najd and Hijaz are the closest to the fusha by virtue of their isolation from the rest of the world until this days .
@@Jeem196 it's more similar to yemen and then najdi
i like the content but the picture you used at the beginning as two girls for sudan is a picture from ethiopian girls who are non arabs but speak semitic languages from class of southern arabian branch
They origin an Arab
Good to know bro, I appreciate the way you explained things and knew when to relate and exclude certain groups and how they came to be
Salud
Cool. Helpful. I'm white and western, we are from the Detroit area. We enjoy a large population from the areas you indicate.
I used to work for a man who would often travel to Lebanon to see family.
We have a lot of Chaldean Catholics in my apartment building.
IMHO there have been are many beautiful interesting cultures and people.
But no culture on earth is 'holy'.
I think that's fair to say.
Thank you so much , that was a clear explanation of Arabic origin and evolution to present day . I'm so much more interested in learning more about the history , the land and the people . Thank you , again .
ALL ARABS, wether sudanese, syrian, or iraqi etc originate from yemen.
There's a difference between being part of the arab world, having a shared culture with Arabs, than actually being arab. Iranians are not arab. They would reject being called as such. They are persian. Arab countries, even with their differences, are still Ethnically Arab. Even with the slight cultural differences, many core cultural aspects are shared.
north african are 'not arabs too.
@@hbg5942 North African is a broad term that encompasses some Arab states such as morroco , Libya , Egypt, Tunisia . Algeria (although mixed with berbers as well)
We know this lmao
في الواقع العرب هم أقلية في دول مثل تونس و المغرب و الجزائر و موريتانيا
There are many of us arab tribes in khuzestan province in Iran
If i'm kazakh, then what box would i fill in for the SAT test?
Good introduction to the topic.
Would be nice to go over how the Arabic language spread with historical milestones.
Very simple, the Arabs conquered many lands and forced their religion, culture and language over others.
the scourge of islam spreads arabic language all over
Conquest Ofcourse
@@mariabopghassanids were arabs ,palmyria empire was arabs too
They speak arabic 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@mariabop Thanks for mentioning that. It was very easy for northern Africans to accept Islamic religion because it is the religion that saved them from slavery from the Roman's conquest and at the end kicked the Roman's out.
By the way, I love the background music
Thank you this well-presented explanation. From this, it appears that the Arabic people group first emerged
from the Sinai, southern Palestine and mid-and-southern Jordan, and spread from there --mostly southward.
This is a lie. Arabs originated in the Arab peninsula.
The original Arab holy city was Petra.
Sinai(Egypt)
thank you for uploading your video, I never gave it much thought before having been taught in school all the desert people in the northers region of Africa and the peninsula were Araba.. It wasn't until recently while learning about Mesopotamian that I then started to wonder about the Arab people and how they came about. So again, thank you for uploading your video. You did an excellent job explaining how the Arab people came to be.
Not true
Dude arabs did derive from yemen lmao. There are qahtan and adnan the qahtanites are the original/pure arabs from south arabia and the adnanites are the north arabians who werent originally arab but became arabized
When the term "Arab" was invented it was to refer to people of Adnan in 856 BC by an Assyrian, they didn't refer to yemen as Arab. and yemen was as pure as turkey today, it had people from africa, persia and, bahrain. they were pure sh!t.
@@AA-or4xc no? Dont talk if ur clearly not educated on this topic. Arabs have two origins the qahtanites and the adnanites and the qahtanites were purely arabs who inhabited what is know as yemen. Theres even more history behind the 2 origins, but yeah
@@primeexe5100 most of what you said is true but what is "Pure Arab" ? Yemen was not pure, it had a lot of Ethiopian immigrants. When the term "Arab" was first ever mentioned it was used to refer to Adnanites, not Qahtanites.
The old ancient Yemeni inscriptions would like to talk for a moment
The ancient Yemenis did not consider themselves as Arabs, as a matter of fact, they differentiate between themselves and the Arabs
There's no archeological evidence of Arabs originating in Yemen, the first mention of Arabs was by the Assyrian inscriptions describing them from Dumat Aljandal while the ancient Yemenis said they are from Najran, both are in Saudi and extention of Arabian settlements.
@@Umayyadazi wdym ancient yemenis did not describe themselves as arab 😂 did u ask them? The arabic language may have began in northern middle east but arab tribes and arabs themselves come from what is today known as yemen
Since Arab is Semitic, it makes sense that its origin was from the Bilad Ash-Sham (Levant)
Even Prophet Muhammad was arabized
By the way bro, what do you think about Philip the Arab? How could be he become roman emperor?
I appreciate your research on this topic, I am wondering if the word (Arab) is not a language, how and when it became ethnic or specific people? And I am surprised with the people who talk about the origin of Arabs or Semitic people avoid mentioning anything has to do with Africa, when we look at even most of "mainstream history" agreed that the Semitic people's origin is Africa, like Ethiopia and Yemen. Thank you.
África no es el origen de ningún pueblo bíblico. Los semitas son los descendientes de Sem, uno de los personajes bíblicos. La Biblia sitúa su origen en el monte Arafat que está en Asia y muy cerca del Cáucaso. Más allá de la Biblia, no hay ningún texto histórico que mencione a ningunos semitas.
Also, during that time of Abraham, the Semitic people were speaking Paleo Hebrew, when time when on the language changed to Phoenician Hebrew. When the Romans burn down Judea they name it Palestinian. The British label us as Palestinians. Shem sons populate the Middle East to north of Africa. Japheth sons populate most of Europe. Ham sons Africa, and Egypt. If you read and study Genesis chapter 10 genealogy, read about the sons of Noah, and the Phoenicians mangled with the Greeks as well they travel around the world they were sailors and merchants. We are very mixed. My grandmother who raised me was born in. Bethlehem told me a few stories here and there and I did my research on it.
The Arabs first started as a central Semitic group same as the Canaanites and spread southwards to replacing south semitic languages in the Arabian peninsula
Is it true because you say so? No citing of sources, no mention of references. This is just one man trying to sound academic in the presentation of his thoughts.
My man, this is my first ever video on this channel. I’m much more academic now. The sources are Ahmad Al-Jallad, the Torah, the Quran, and a few other places
aljallad is an amateur lol
Lool original of Arabs come from center & north of arabia This is proven by the Sabaean inscriptions in Yemen
We are not discussing the origin of the Arabian race, but the origin of the Arabic identity, culture, and language. Arabs still come from Arabia, just not Yemen or southern Saudi. The origin of the Arabic script is the North.
Getting into the topic of how even some 'Arabs' in the peninsula were Arabized is not really esoteric knowledge but in the age where online discourse about the Arab identity is deduced to "You're an ignorant bedouin" and "bedouins toppled down your crade of civilization" it's respectable. الله يحفظك
There’s so much wrong in this
Agreed
I’ve done a lot of research on the topic and I commend the author for his detail and good research. The author includes Northern Arabia, the Levant, as well as the Syrian Desert as part of the original territory of the Arabs; this is consistent with recent archaeology and historical evidence. I would insist that Yemen only became Arabized after the Islamic conquest- therefore it is IMPOSSIBLE that Yemen is the homeland of the Arabs. They spoke (until the after Arab conquest) Sabean/Himyaritic which was a Semitic language, but in the South Semitic branch more related to the Ethiopian languages (ge’ez, tigrinya, amharic). Moreover, the are steles from the people who inhabited Yemen at the time referring to the people north of them as Arabs. The ancient Yemenis did not worship the classical Arabic gods. For a while even Yemen was Jewish (unrelated but interesting) and had an evil Jewish king (Dhu Nuwas) that slaughtered thousands of Christians in Najran. I did a lot of digging and I couldn’t find any evidence of old Arabic inscriptions, religion, identity, or civilization from Yemen in the pre-Islamic period. The myth of of the Arab tribes originating from Yemen comes from the story of the “scattering of the azd” which supposedly occurred after the collapse of the Ma’arib damn around 200-300 AD. One, there is no evidence that this actually occurred. Two, the Arabic language, culture and civilization was developed much earlier, so even if this was true the tribes that came from Yemen would’ve probably been Arabized after they moved north. "If it doesn’t look like a duck, swim like a duck, and quack like a duck, then it’s probably not a duck"
Full of logics
Thank you. Very informative.
Thank you for the video and I want to clarify some things. The Maghreb Arabized THEMSELVES by local empires and sultanates like the Almohads. Same with Yemen who originally spoke Himyarite. It was all mainly due to Islam as well as culture because Arabic was the language of learning. Persia also wrote their works in Arabic after the conquest, but were not Arabized when Persia became independent centuries later even though Persia was under direct Arab rule for centuries while the Maghreb (North Africa) were independent. This is because the local Persia rulers did not Arabize the state. Cities in Maghreb like Fes, Casablanca, and Rabat were Arabic speaking while the rural areas remained Berber. Arabic language is more like the English language as a sign of civilization and development. There was only one example of forced arabization and that was in Egypt by a single Fatimid caliph named Al Hakim who banned Coptic as well as foods like Molokhia and created the Druze religion to make himself a God like figure.
So an Arab is a person from a country that spoke Arabic for past 1000 years, which is majority Arabic speaking.
Agreed, Arab is like an empire or continent. Really, North Africa and West Asia should be one continent called Arabia, rather than part of the Arab world being in Asia and part in Africa. Together this new Arabia would be larger than Europe geographically and have more than half its populace. I would also add Sudan as well even though it is considered East Africa. Also, Al Hakim was a complete nutcase. I heard he was a shi'a, others say he was a Druze. Either way he hated the Copts
@@Jeem196 I wouldn’t argue it’s an empire, but it defiantly share characteristics of a continent. Arabs had multiple empires and frankly were always divided into many states. However, these states were always in contact with each other. Travelers would move around easily from Andalus to Maghreb to Baghdad and down to Yemen. Leaders were in regular contact with one another. Middle East Arabs share more history with Morocco than they do with China even though Silk Road was very important. Morocco has more history with Iraq than they do with sub Sahara. The only non Arab entities that Arabs have the most history with are Persians and Europeans along Mediterranean. However these relationships were antagonistic and were rivals. If Arabs seek to improve their situation, the people need to understand these facts so we can overthrow these nincompoop dictators that are maintaining and profiting off the divisions allowing enemies to get the better of us.
@@Jeem196 very similar to how the region the Roman's conquered and colonized became Europe
An Arab is someone who’s a descendant of an Arab lineage otherwise you’re just a liar
@@AbdulRahman-bi1nu Hate to break it to you, the “lineage” kept changing from before to after Islam. Nobody prior to Islam claimed “Qahtan” was origin of Arabs. After Islam, a bunch of origin stories emerged like “Hud” and “Qahtan” and even “Giants from Babylon.” You’re just uneducated on the matter. The Gulf weren’t originally Arab. UAE for instance spoke Hasaitic and Aramaic. How can you tell me those people are “Arab by lineage?” Follow archeology and facts. With all due respect to whatever your daddy told you, facts don’t care about your feelings.