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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
@@BenBasBen You don't know what you are talking about and you have no idea about the history of Iraq. You sound like you are a confused Yemeni. By the way Yemeni and Hijaz don't go together, they are two distinct and very different locations. The majority of Iraq's population consists of tribal arabs.
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
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..
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
As an Iraqi, the southern Iraq is where the Bedouin Gulf Arabs live, I heard that Yemen is the birthplace of Arabic, "the Original Arabs" but other sources say it's Northwest of the Arabian peninsula like the video mentions.
The “the orignal arabs” being yemen is a new myth that just spread around meanwhile 99% of sources say the original arabs came from the peninsula which is modern day saudi arabia, making saudis the original arabs
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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
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.
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 UA-cam. 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 😊
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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 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.
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.
Thank you, Mr. Jeem. I found this very informative even though much which you said must remain theories as you cannot prove the points. I would also suggest allowing for the maps to be presented for a bit more time as I found that as soon as you put one up, you took it away after 1 or 2 seconds. We must all realize as you said, that the Arabs or any other group did not cover all the territory at any one time. There was always an intermingling of peoples, especially if the peoples or at least some of them, were nomadic or semi-nomadic. I must say that I find it very sad that the entire region is ending toward what I would call an unhealthy homogeneity. Not only is Arabic taking over in all aspects of daily life and commerce, but there is no or little room for Aramaic, Kurdish or other smaller language groups. The same thing can be said with islam. It makes little or no room for other religions such as Christianity or Judaism. This is why Israel is such a thorn in the side of the Arabs. They do not seem to be able to deal with someone else or someone who thinks or speaks differently. I find this entire tendency very sad and very unhealthy for the future. Also I have to take issue when you called the northern Arabic dialect North Saudi. Is not Saudi simply the name of a Bedouin family that took over the lower half of the peninsula in a campaign of terror? To call a country after them is somewhat ridiculous, but this may be characteristic of a people that cannot think beyond the box.
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 .
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.
@@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 .
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.
@@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.
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.
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
@@marvinpercival4717 Google translater. No hablo inglés y entiendo lo que dices. Has dicho que Mesopotamia, Egipto y Jordania son pueblos africanos. Un absoluto disparate.
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?
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.
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.
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
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!
@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.
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.
well done I would only add that Arabic is considered a semitic language, while Persia, Turkey, Anatolia, and/or Iran were called Aryan culture, that we now call Proto-Indo-European. However, it existed before Europe and we changed the word Aryan to PIE. Iran means Land of Aryans We also saw Aryan culture in Nazi Germany, with Runes which may be tied to Armenia In conventional astrology we call the Age of Aries, the Ram, the Aryan Age, ruled by the Aryans. That all changed after WW2
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.
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.
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"
There's a great point to be made just before minute nine. It's a recency bias to believe pieces of land must be inhabited by just one ethnic group or mostly by one ethnic group. Throughout history different ethnic groups coexisted in many places and that's kinda the natural thing to occur.
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
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.
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
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
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.
@@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)
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.
@@GDL88 Of course not. “Mohammedan” predates the word Islam and Muslims. It was the original term in all historical documents referring to the Muslims.
@@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...
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.
@@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.
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
Excellent explanation to the Arabs as people/ If you were to look in more depth- the ( J ) group in the DNA, is mostly Arabs than modern Jews , they only meet 3000 years ago. And they are Arab too , when Christianity came about, some converted , then thereafter also some converted to Islam , in short Arabic language evolved through history/ only when Islam made it convenient until now.
@@J_FGCC4474 J is not Arab, it originated in the Caucasus, meaning, the ultimate ancestors of Arabs migrated from here. I am not "farsi" but the same Persians you insult also carry the J haplogroup just like you. So much for bitterness between Arabs and Iranians all the time lol.
The Jews originally came from Yemen and Southern Part of what is now Saudi Arabia ie Asir region. Read the book written by a Lebanese Christian Arab *Kamal.Salibi* . The Book Title is : *The Bible From Arabia*.
thank's to that great video, you have only to be aware of the distinction between the language and the graphic of the language who is from civilised nabatean mercheants to have a complete image ! thank's
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.
This land was populated about 11,700 years ago by ancient Maldivian (Kumari Kandam) Islanders. These people were living in Maldivian Islands before 11,700 until the great flood or deluge happened in 11,700 with the end of Ice age. Their land went under water forcing the people to flea to nearby region. They sailed and landed in Socotra Island, Oman, Yemen & Ethiopia. Another group landed near Gobekli Tepe and one other landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Later the Sumerian moved north and the Gobekli Tepe people moved south. It was a slow migration happened around 6,000 years ago. Those who lived in the north slowly became lighter skin people due to cold and lack of sun light. Those landed in the south moved north to the Euphrates and Tigris river basin and created the Sumerian civilization Later these two people mingle in Mesopotamia, along the regions of Euphrates and Tigris rivers. This was the birth place of the original Arabs. If you go to Socotra island you can still see the pure South Indian people living there. Socotra Island was initially named as "Sukathara Deevu" in Tamil meaning hygiene island. The Ethiopian language Aramaic was closely related to Tamil Language. Even Jesus spoke Aramaic with lot of Tamil words. If you had watched the movie "The Passion of the Christ" you can hear many words from Aramaic and Tamil. Example: "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani". This is a deformed form of Tamil. El in Tamil means Sun. Sun was the God for the Tamil people since without sun there is nothing could prevail in the world. El ohi means one is addressing the Sun/God. Lama means (as in Dalai Lama in Buddhism) head person. Sabachthani is a combination of 3 Tamil words 1)Savai, 2)thaa, 3)nee meaning give me death. Savai = death, thaa = give me, nee = you. So the meaning of "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani" is oh the might god please give me the death.
@@قبل7سنوات-ف8م I earlier said 'El' means Sun. Similarly 'Al' means moon. Why most of the words in Judaism start with El and most of Arabic words start with 'Al'? Initially the Jewish people (I'm talking about the Ashkenazi Jews converted in 7th century) were from cold region of Khazaria. They preferred the Sun for warmth. Initially the Arab were from the south, Sumerian, and preferred the night time because they preferred the coolness of the night. El Shaddai, Eloah, El-berith, El Elyon, Elohim, El madam are some of Judaism words and Allah (Al Ah), Al-Khadir (Green man), Al-Malik, Al-Salam are some Islam words. What is the meaning of Yahovah (Jehovah)? Ya + Kovan became Yahovan and Yehovan. Later it became Jehovah. Ja means South and Kovan means (similar to König in German/Ashkenazim) King. So Ya Kovan means The king from the south, which was the ancient Kumari Kandam or present day Maldives. What is the meaning of "Islam"? Islam came from two Tamil words, Eesa and Lama => Esalama => Islam. Eesa or Eesan is God and Lama as in Dalai Lama (Buddhist main priest) the main person. So Eesalama is the main god. So, the word Islam means the religion with the main god only. There is another religion in the midst of Islam, Judaism and Christianity in Middle East. It is called "Yazidis". They had gone through harrowing experience in the hands of ISIS. Why? Who is ISIS? It was created by the Israeli Security and Intelligence Service. Many young Muslims joined it without knowing the secret. Why the ISIS were after these Yazidi people? The word Yazidi was also a Tamil word. Ya + Siddha meaning the Siddha in the south became Ya-sidha and later Ya-zidda and further down the years Yazidi. The Ashkenazi Jewish consider the Muslims, the Tamils and the Yazidis beside Japanese as a thread because these people are still the remnants from the Kumari Kandam Deluge. They fear their concept of "they were the only people saved from the Deluge" may one day be challenged by these other people. There are many more evidence such as the Kaaba, the white dress worn during Hajj and the Stoning of the Devil and many more can prove that there is a connection between Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Tamils. See: wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_the_Devil
@@robbinghook3571 مرحبا ، أنا متحدث أصلي للغة العربية اللغة الأصلية للتوراة و الإنجيل و القرآن هي حرفيا لغات متشابهة تشبه العربية بشكل كبير اللغة العربية ، الأنبياء الخاصين بهذه الديانات كانوا عرب عاشوا في الجزيرة العربية ، جدهم النبي إبراهيم الذي هو بالمناسبة جد العديد من العرب اليوم ، العائلة اللغوية (العربية/السامية) مستقلة بذاتها كما أن لها شعب خاص بها ، و لا علاقة لها بالعوائل اللغوية الأخرى في العالم ، في الهند هناك عائلتين لغويتين : الهندو-أوروبية (شمال الهند) أو الهندية الأصلية الجنوبية (جنوب الهند) هذه لغات مثبت علميا و منطقيا و بالحرف أنها لا علاقة لها بأي لغة سامية يمكنك التأكد من كلامي مع خبراء اللغة العربية الأساسية التي هي أيضا (لغة إبراهيم/لغة التوراة/لغة الإنجيل/لغة القرآن/لغة أبناء إبراهيم) كلمة "إسلام" تعني السلام في اللغة العربية ، لا علاقة لها بأي مصدر خارجي كلمة "إيل" تعني الإله ، و بالإسماعيلية "Elah" و هي مشتقه من مصدر جذر عربي "Al" و تعني المرجع الثوب في الحج هي ملابس العرب أو ملابس اي ناس فس منطقة حارة ، إلى اليوم اليمنيين يرتدونها الكعبة هي طقوس إسلامية لها علاقة بالنبي إبراهيم ، و كان العرب يمارسونها قبل الإسلام بطريقة مختلفة قليلا رجم الشيطان هي عادة لإظهار كراهية الشيطان و ليست الوحيدة في الإسلام و منها عقوبة رجم الزاني الموجودة أيضا الديانات التي أنبيائها من أبناء إبراهيم
@@قبل7سنوات-ف8م I took the pleasure of translating your comment above into English. "Hello, I am a native Arabic speaker The original language of the Torah, the Bible, and the Qur’an are literally similar languages. Arabic is very similar to the Arabic language. The prophets of these religions were Arabs who lived in the Arabian Peninsula. Their grandfather was the Prophet Abraham, who, by the way, is the grandfather of many Arabs today. The language family (Arabic/Semitic) is independent in itself. It also has its own people, and has no relation to other linguistic families in the world. In India, there are two linguistic families: Indo-European (Northern India) or indigenous South Indian (South India). These languages have been scientifically, logically, and literally proven to be unrelated. In any Semitic language You can confirm my words with the experts of the basic Arabic language which is also (Language of Abraham/Language of the Torah/Language of the Bible/Language of the Qur’an/Language of the Sons of Abraham) The word "Islam" means peace in Arabic, it has no relation to any external source The word "El" means God, and in Ismaili "Elah" is derived from the Arabic root "Al", which means reference. The clothing during Hajj is the clothing of Arabs or the clothing of any people in a hot area, and to this day Yemenis wear it The Kaaba is an Islamic ritual related to the Prophet Abraham, and the Arabs practiced it before Islam in a slightly different way Stoning Satan is a custom to show hatred of Satan, and it is not the only one in Islam, including the punishment of stoning the adulterer, which also exists in religions whose prophets are from the sons of Abraham."
@robbinghook3571 Eshaqi Arabic language : إيلي إيلي لما شبقتني ؟ Eli , Eli lima shabaqtni ? Esmaeali Arabic language : إلهي إلهي لما سبقتني ؟ Elahi, Elahi lima sabaqtani ? English : God , God, why did you leave me ? Can you now know what "difference in language family" means?...
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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. 🙏🏿🔥❤️👂🏾👀
Lebanese food is THE BOMB! Awesome video. Me and my buddy were discussing this the other day.
I enjoyed watching your analysis and theory of Arab origin, despite there is many weak points on it, good luck.
Love your channel man. So happy I found it. Shout out from a fellow Libnani!
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.
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
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.
No mate Iraqi are mongol Irani..no Arab blood or race impossible..pure Arabs are Yemen hijaz .you are arabanise.. Mongolia Irani..
@@BenBasBen You don't know what you are talking about and you have no idea about the history of Iraq. You sound like you are a confused Yemeni. By the way Yemeni and Hijaz don't go together, they are two distinct and very different locations. The majority of Iraq's population consists of tribal arabs.
Well done. Nice. Well researched and explained. Keep it up!
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
Great video Jeem. I’m half Lebanese myself and your message is based on history and common sense
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..
Thank you for sharing apart of my people!!! Hope you do a lot more videos!!! Thank you handsome!!!
Thanks
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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
As an Iraqi, the southern Iraq is where the Bedouin Gulf Arabs live, I heard that Yemen is the birthplace of Arabic, "the Original Arabs" but other sources say it's Northwest of the Arabian peninsula like the video mentions.
The “the orignal arabs” being yemen is a new myth that just spread around meanwhile 99% of sources say the original arabs came from the peninsula which is modern day saudi arabia, making saudis the original arabs
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.
تتحدث العربية ؟
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.
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.
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?
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.
Informative and well presented. I learned much. Get yourself a media-type as a partner to help you with production. Looking forward to more.
I like the description “Arabs are a giant Empire with different cultures”
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…..
Thank you for this breakdown of the Arab Origins. I found it enlightening.
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".
Just like Chinese, we speak very different dialects, eat different food, act differently, and look different.
Thank you for teaching me about my people
No worries brother
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
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.
We need more info on this topic
I’ll be doing another video soon about Arab history again my friend
Yup
Accurate information, thanks for the content and the authenticity
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 UA-cam. 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
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.
Great topic
That was beautiful!
People in Nothern Africa before Islam were not Semitic, but Hamitic group.
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
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.
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 👍💜
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
Thank you, Mr. Jeem. I found this very informative even though much which you said must remain theories as you cannot prove the points. I would also suggest allowing for the maps to be presented for a bit more time as I found that as soon as you put one up, you took it away after 1 or 2 seconds. We must all realize as you said, that the Arabs or any other group did not cover all the territory at any one time. There was always an intermingling of peoples, especially if the peoples or at least some of them, were nomadic or semi-nomadic. I must say that I find it very sad that the entire region is ending toward what I would call an unhealthy homogeneity. Not only is Arabic taking over in all aspects of daily life and commerce, but there is no or little room for Aramaic, Kurdish or other smaller language groups. The same thing can be said with islam. It makes little or no room for other religions such as Christianity or Judaism. This is why Israel is such a thorn in the side of the Arabs. They do not seem to be able to deal with someone else or someone who thinks or speaks differently. I find this entire tendency very sad and very unhealthy for the future. Also I have to take issue when you called the northern Arabic dialect North Saudi. Is not Saudi simply the name of a Bedouin family that took over the lower half of the peninsula in a campaign of terror? To call a country after them is somewhat ridiculous, but this may be characteristic of a people that cannot think beyond the box.
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 .
Mesmerizing video wish it was longer video.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
What happened to all the non-Arabs who the Arabs subsequently displaced? Were they assimilated or did they just die out?
In north africa they were assimilated
In levent and iraq arab tribes were the power there and controlled these lands
Others were arabised
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?
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.
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
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
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...
10:00 What happens to the audio? Your voice is muted and the music is louder, anyone else experience this? Was really enjoying the video.
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!
The beat you have slaps, the knowledge you have also slaps.
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
@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.
Finally someone with facts thanks ya habibi
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.
well done
I would only add that Arabic is considered a semitic language, while Persia, Turkey, Anatolia, and/or Iran were called Aryan culture, that we now call Proto-Indo-European. However, it existed before Europe and we changed the word Aryan to PIE. Iran means Land of Aryans
We also saw Aryan culture in Nazi Germany, with Runes
which may be tied to Armenia
In conventional astrology we call the Age of Aries, the Ram, the Aryan Age, ruled by the Aryans. That all changed after WW2
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
I hope you do a follow up, it was real interesting. I had a lot of misconceptions.
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)
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"
The background music is annoying
There's a great point to be made just before minute nine. It's a recency bias to believe pieces of land must be inhabited by just one ethnic group or mostly by one ethnic group. Throughout history different ethnic groups coexisted in many places and that's kinda the natural thing to occur.
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
Nice anthropological discussion! I did not know that they originated more from the Southern Levant and North Arabia.
Arab origin from Bin Yemen "South East Arabian" .. not Levant
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..
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.
Très intéressant !
Peux tu faire en tant que Libanais des vidéo en Français ?
Merci bonne soirée
Fantastic presentation, very well spoken.
Thank you. This was very educational and interesting.
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.
If i'm kazakh, then what box would i fill in for the SAT test?
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
And what are your credentials in ANY related field of study?
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
Well informational video love the history pics
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...
heyyy new sub here great vid bud 😍
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.
Thank you. Very informative.
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
Young man, very impressive!!!
I wish you well..
Full of logics
What do you think of the youtuber "Ancestral Brew", and their Palestinian and Syrian videos?
Excellent explanation to the Arabs as people/ If you were to look in more depth- the ( J ) group in the DNA, is mostly Arabs than modern Jews , they only meet 3000 years ago. And they are Arab too , when Christianity came about, some converted , then thereafter also some converted to Islam , in short Arabic language evolved through history/ only when Islam made it convenient until now.
Jews are not Arabs and J isn't an Arab marker.
yah stupidity in the form of islam and racism remained
@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement
J An Arab gene.... Do not interfere Farse 🏃🏃🏃🏃
@@J_FGCC4474 J is not Arab, it originated in the Caucasus, meaning, the ultimate ancestors of Arabs migrated from here.
I am not "farsi" but the same Persians you insult also carry the J haplogroup just like you. So much for bitterness between Arabs and Iranians all the time lol.
The Jews originally came from Yemen and Southern Part of what is now Saudi Arabia ie Asir region.
Read the book written by a Lebanese Christian Arab *Kamal.Salibi* . The Book Title is : *The Bible From Arabia*.
thank's to that great video, you have only to be aware of the distinction between the language and the graphic of the language who is from civilised nabatean mercheants to have a complete image !
thank's
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.
This land was populated about 11,700 years ago by ancient Maldivian (Kumari Kandam) Islanders.
These people were living in Maldivian Islands before 11,700 until the great flood or deluge happened in 11,700 with the end of Ice age.
Their land went under water forcing the people to flea to nearby region.
They sailed and landed in Socotra Island, Oman, Yemen & Ethiopia.
Another group landed near Gobekli Tepe and one other landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Later the Sumerian moved north and the Gobekli Tepe people moved south.
It was a slow migration happened around 6,000 years ago.
Those who lived in the north slowly became lighter skin people due to cold and lack of sun light.
Those landed in the south moved north to the Euphrates and Tigris river basin and created the Sumerian civilization
Later these two people mingle in Mesopotamia, along the regions of Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
This was the birth place of the original Arabs.
If you go to Socotra island you can still see the pure South Indian people living there.
Socotra Island was initially named as "Sukathara Deevu" in Tamil meaning hygiene island.
The Ethiopian language Aramaic was closely related to Tamil Language.
Even Jesus spoke Aramaic with lot of Tamil words.
If you had watched the movie "The Passion of the Christ" you can hear many words from Aramaic and Tamil.
Example: "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani". This is a deformed form of Tamil.
El in Tamil means Sun. Sun was the God for the Tamil people since without sun there is nothing could prevail in the world.
El ohi means one is addressing the Sun/God.
Lama means (as in Dalai Lama in Buddhism) head person.
Sabachthani is a combination of 3 Tamil words 1)Savai, 2)thaa, 3)nee meaning give me death.
Savai = death, thaa = give me, nee = you.
So the meaning of "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani" is oh the might god please give me the death.
Not true
@@قبل7سنوات-ف8م
I earlier said 'El' means Sun. Similarly 'Al' means moon.
Why most of the words in Judaism start with El and most of Arabic words start with 'Al'?
Initially the Jewish people (I'm talking about the Ashkenazi Jews converted in 7th century) were from cold region of Khazaria.
They preferred the Sun for warmth.
Initially the Arab were from the south, Sumerian, and preferred the night time because they preferred the coolness of the night.
El Shaddai, Eloah, El-berith, El Elyon, Elohim, El madam are some of Judaism words and Allah (Al Ah), Al-Khadir (Green man), Al-Malik, Al-Salam are some Islam words.
What is the meaning of Yahovah (Jehovah)? Ya + Kovan became Yahovan and Yehovan. Later it became Jehovah.
Ja means South and Kovan means (similar to König in German/Ashkenazim) King. So Ya Kovan means The king from the south, which was the ancient Kumari Kandam or present day Maldives.
What is the meaning of "Islam"? Islam came from two Tamil words, Eesa and Lama => Esalama => Islam.
Eesa or Eesan is God and Lama as in Dalai Lama (Buddhist main priest) the main person. So Eesalama is the main god.
So, the word Islam means the religion with the main god only.
There is another religion in the midst of Islam, Judaism and Christianity in Middle East. It is called "Yazidis".
They had gone through harrowing experience in the hands of ISIS. Why?
Who is ISIS? It was created by the Israeli Security and Intelligence Service. Many young Muslims joined it without knowing the secret.
Why the ISIS were after these Yazidi people?
The word Yazidi was also a Tamil word.
Ya + Siddha meaning the Siddha in the south became Ya-sidha and later Ya-zidda and further down the years Yazidi.
The Ashkenazi Jewish consider the Muslims, the Tamils and the Yazidis beside Japanese as a thread because these people are still the remnants from the Kumari Kandam Deluge. They fear their concept of "they were the only people saved from the Deluge" may one day be challenged by these other people.
There are many more evidence such as the Kaaba, the white dress worn during Hajj and the Stoning of the Devil and many more can prove that there is a connection between Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Tamils. See: wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_the_Devil
@@robbinghook3571
مرحبا ، أنا متحدث أصلي للغة العربية
اللغة الأصلية للتوراة و الإنجيل و القرآن هي حرفيا لغات متشابهة تشبه العربية بشكل كبير اللغة العربية ، الأنبياء الخاصين بهذه الديانات كانوا عرب عاشوا في الجزيرة العربية ، جدهم النبي إبراهيم الذي هو بالمناسبة جد العديد من العرب اليوم ، العائلة اللغوية (العربية/السامية) مستقلة بذاتها كما أن لها شعب خاص بها ، و لا علاقة لها بالعوائل اللغوية الأخرى في العالم ، في الهند هناك عائلتين لغويتين : الهندو-أوروبية (شمال الهند) أو الهندية الأصلية الجنوبية (جنوب الهند) هذه لغات مثبت علميا و منطقيا و بالحرف أنها لا علاقة لها بأي لغة سامية
يمكنك التأكد من كلامي مع خبراء اللغة العربية الأساسية التي هي أيضا (لغة إبراهيم/لغة التوراة/لغة الإنجيل/لغة القرآن/لغة أبناء إبراهيم)
كلمة "إسلام" تعني السلام في اللغة العربية ، لا علاقة لها بأي مصدر خارجي
كلمة "إيل" تعني الإله ، و بالإسماعيلية "Elah" و هي مشتقه من مصدر جذر عربي "Al" و تعني المرجع
الثوب في الحج هي ملابس العرب أو ملابس اي ناس فس منطقة حارة ، إلى اليوم اليمنيين يرتدونها
الكعبة هي طقوس إسلامية لها علاقة بالنبي إبراهيم ، و كان العرب يمارسونها قبل الإسلام بطريقة مختلفة قليلا
رجم الشيطان هي عادة لإظهار كراهية الشيطان و ليست الوحيدة في الإسلام و منها عقوبة رجم الزاني الموجودة أيضا الديانات التي أنبيائها من أبناء إبراهيم
@@قبل7سنوات-ف8م
I took the pleasure of translating your comment above into English.
"Hello, I am a native Arabic speaker
The original language of the Torah, the Bible, and the Qur’an are literally similar languages. Arabic is very similar to the Arabic language. The prophets of these religions were Arabs who lived in the Arabian Peninsula. Their grandfather was the Prophet Abraham, who, by the way, is the grandfather of many Arabs today. The language family (Arabic/Semitic) is independent in itself. It also has its own people, and has no relation to other linguistic families in the world. In India, there are two linguistic families: Indo-European (Northern India) or indigenous South Indian (South India). These languages have been scientifically, logically, and literally proven to be unrelated. In any Semitic language
You can confirm my words with the experts of the basic Arabic language which is also (Language of Abraham/Language of the Torah/Language of the Bible/Language of the Qur’an/Language of the Sons of Abraham)
The word "Islam" means peace in Arabic, it has no relation to any external source
The word "El" means God, and in Ismaili "Elah" is derived from the Arabic root "Al", which means reference.
The clothing during Hajj is the clothing of Arabs or the clothing of any people in a hot area, and to this day Yemenis wear it
The Kaaba is an Islamic ritual related to the Prophet Abraham, and the Arabs practiced it before Islam in a slightly different way
Stoning Satan is a custom to show hatred of Satan, and it is not the only one in Islam, including the punishment of stoning the adulterer, which also exists in religions whose prophets are from the sons of Abraham."
@robbinghook3571
Eshaqi Arabic language :
إيلي إيلي لما شبقتني ؟
Eli , Eli lima shabaqtni ?
Esmaeali Arabic language :
إلهي إلهي لما سبقتني ؟
Elahi, Elahi lima sabaqtani ?
English :
God , God, why did you leave me ?
Can you now know what "difference in language family" means?...
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