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The Arabs to Sudan, and that the traces of this pre-Islamic Arab culture in Sudan have appeared in several different ways in many aspects of life, as the Arabs of Himyar, Saba, and Hadramaut transferred those different cultures to the homelands where they settled. This occurred between the seventh and fifth centuries BC.

However, those Arab migrations that occurred before Islam faded with the appearance of the light of Islam and the spread of Islam among the Arabs, and this was the reason for the spread of the Islamic religion among the Arab groups that migrated to Sudan after its appearance.

The extensive Arab migration to Sudan, which occurred with the spread of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and the regions surrounding Sudan, had a direct impact on spreading the Arab-Islamic culture, whose traces remain immortal to this day. This established phase began after the migration of Arab tribes from the Arabian Peninsula with the Islamic conquests, carrying with them their Arab culture and their immortal Islamic creed, which left its clear, strong, and evident traces in the Sudanese structure to this day.

The inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula, since the advent of Islam, whether they were of the pure Arabs or the Arabized Arabs, who arrived in the land of Sudan and mixed completely with the local population, through which they acquired Arabism through culture or mixing. This mixing is what broadened the concept of Arabism in the land of Sudan and helped its spread. And so Arabism spread among the Nubians, and they understood its culture and felt that they were part of its civilization, and from here this qualified them to become part of it and belong to it.

Although Islam and Arab culture greatly helped to imbue northern Sudan with a high degree of cultural, social, and emotional homogeneity, the central region of it, which represents the center of civilizational and cultural gravity,

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