ARB 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: South Arabia, Sawmill

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There are countries that used to be christian (lebanon) Majority of arabs are muslims but that"s not their identity. Egypt = gypsies gypties= capital: cairo= qahira = city victorious call themselves masr= masri = masriya (girl) copt/copti= someone from egypt. Sudan = the arabs referred to lands south of egypt as land of the blacks = the sudan. Algeria = jazira is one island - jazayer = many islands algiers = french corruption of al-jazayer. Morocco = the moors inhabitants of spain and north africa rabat = arab city. Iraq = country of mesopotamia (tagris and euphrates) and the many waterways in between like veins . Syria = country of the sun or named after the lebanese town of tyr or sour. Tunisia = tunis = thanis = thanit = phoenician god ain-thanit. Somalia = probably means land of hospitality = from the arabic word sawmill = to milk the cow and serve the guests.

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