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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMARAR , a tribe of See also:

African " See also:Arabs " inhabiting the mountainous See also:country on the See also:west See also:side of the Red See also:Sea from See also:Suakin northwards towards Kosseir. Between them and the See also:Nile are the See also:Ababda and See also:Bisharin tribes and to their See also:south dwell the See also:Hadendoa. The country of the Amarar is called the Etbai. Their headquarters are in the Ariab See also:district. The tribe is divided into four See also:great families: (1) Weled Gwilei, (2) Weled Aliab, (3) Weled Kurbab Wagadab, and (4) the Amarar proper of the Ariab district. They claim to be of Koreish See also:blood and to be the descendants of an invading Arab See also:army. Possibly some small bands of Koreish Arabs may have made an inroad and converted some of the Amarar to See also:Islam.. Further than this there is little to substantiate their claim. See Anglo-See also:Egyptian See also:Sudan, edited by See also:Count See also:Gleichen (See also:London; 1905) ; See also:Sir F. R. See also:Wingate, Mandism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891); A. H.

See also:

Keane, See also:Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (London, 1884).

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