What does it mean to be Arab? | Mufti Abu Layth

right and were the earliest Arabs black I mean Arabs you know Arabs I guess but they would have been Arabs were from really like the Middle East that's where they emerge from so they wouldn't have been black in that sense if that's what you mean by black if you mean skintone I don't think they would have generally but maybe some of them would have been darker than others I don't know but the interesting thing is what does it mean to be Arab that's an interesting topic that is actually discussed in this book as well that this Arab identity is perhaps a

forged identity it does not actually exist the way people think it exists that Arabs really are simply Arab er forms now people who speak this language called Arabic and that's an interesting discussion in and of itself really that weirdoes where do you know this Arabic language is truly a conquering language it has conquered the hearts and minds of its friends and foes seriously it has

you know it has taken over and it's subsumed people into it that they then become or assume that they are also Arabic if you like but it's an amazing discussion in and of itself all right somebody says were was Arabia dachshund I don't think personally it was dark dogs in like that I don't think so that's my understanding but I mean the Arabs in essence it appears that there

were people who emerged around the Middle East sorry around what may have been the Levant region today so maybe that was the origin of if we can say they have an origin but it seems to be that people who dispersed from there and have some loose connection genetically they have some like they share certain haplogroups from in terms of genes they dispersed they lived mainly in the Middle East and then they migrated to the Arabian Peninsula they did not emerge from the Arabian Peninsula I think that's actually a later created

myth that Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula and I think that the southern Arabs the Yemenis in essence may not have been Arab but they may have been kind of related to the Middle East and Levant Arabs and these people but there was a project to arriba size everybody and bring them and so this whole thing of cotton I think I think was made up by people and he subsumed the southern tribes the ancient south arabian tribes of him ER and the christian and jewish

tribes that existed there was mainly Christian kingdoms from way before Islam way before hundreds and hundreds of years before Islam and and like so you would have had the the queen of sheba Sabah the seventeen and the dam of what they say of the Mari the merit dam which is mentioned referred to alluded to in the Quran those people I don't think that they were Arabs in the way we understand Arabs today but later on they were kind of brought into this identity that you too are herbs and they kind of

just got absorbed into it so that's my I think that and I think this whole other nine thing was made up as well to kind of rival upon and there's a whole broad discussion about it if you look into it but yeah so if that makes much sense cool