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ASHRAP (SHUREFA, SHERIFS)

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ASHRAP (SHUREFA, SHERIFS)

ASHRAP (SHUREFA, SHERIFS) , a small scattered tribe of See also:

AFRICAN

African" See also:

ARABS

Arabs " settled near Tokar, in the valleys of the Gash and Baraka, and in the See also:

AMARAR

Amarar See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

north of See also:

SUAKIN, or SAWAKIN

Suakin. They See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call themselves Beni Ilashin, and claim descent from See also:

MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet; hence their name, sherif (pluial ashraf) being the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title applied todescendants of the See also:

PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet. In the See also:

time of the See also:

KHALIFA, THE

khalifa Abdulla (1885-1898), Ashrkf was the name by which the See also:

FAMILY

family and adherents of 'his See also:

LATE

late See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master the See also:

MANDI

mandi Were known, the mandi's family claiming to, be Ashraf: The Ashraf of Tokar remained loyal to See also:

EGYPT

Egypt during the See also:

SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan troubles. See Anglo-Egyptran Sudan, edited by See also:

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Gletchen (See also:

LONDON

London, 1905); See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

Fire and Sward in the Sudan, by See also:

SLATIN, SIR RUDOLF CARL VON (18J7— )

Slatin See also:

PASHA

Pasha (London, 1896); for the Ashraf or Sherifs iri''Arttbia, see See also:

ARABIA

ARABIA: See also:

GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

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