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XXXVI The Saba'^a and the Mata'ana are western Arabs, tracing their descent to the Masamida.
XXXVII The HowARA trace their descent to the Baranis. They are western Arabs, and their pedigree goes back to Kuraysh.
XXXVIII The AwLAD 'Ali trace their descent to Hilala and are GUHAYNA.
XXXIX The Hegaziyyun are eastern Arabs, Kuraysh by race. XL The rest of the inhabitants of Upper Egypt are composed of Copts [Akbdt], and Rum, and Gumusa, the Gumusa being slaves, and Aleppans [Haleb], who are children of adultery.
XLI The Fakhrania include Ashraf on the mother's side. XLII El Sayyid 'Abd el Rahim el Kenawi was one of the Ashraf of the west, and he is sufficiently famous to need no further description.
XLIII The inhabitants of the Nile [valley] south of Egypt and west
of the Red Sea are all 'Ababda, the descendants of 'Abdulla ibn el
Zubayr ibn el 'Awwam. XLIV The inhabitants of Haifa are Kanuz, the sons of Dowlat el Kanzi, that is Nuba.
XLV Similarly the original inhabitants of Dongola, all of them, from the Red Sea to the Equator, are descended from the Zing.
These came from Neged and el 'Irak. XLVI The Persians [Fdrism] are of the seed of Selman el Farisi.
XLVII The original HupuR are all Guhayna and inhabit the country between Edfu and Aswan.
XLVIII The Beni 'Amir, that is Um 'Ar'ara, entered Abyssinia. They are famous for their bravery and courage and stout-heartedness, and are a mighty tribe.
XLIX The facts given above are based on a tree which I found
written in the handwriting of el Hasan ibn 'Ali, the brother of el Sayyid Ahmad el Bedowi, and taken from the genealogical tree
found by el Shafa'i 'Ali Ibrahim and the above-mentioned el Hasan.
L According to Ibn Khaldun the tribes of Arabs descended from Guhayna came after the Muhammadan conquest of the northern Nuba in 13 18 a.d., and spread over the Sudan, and formed a separate branch.
LI The Hamar Arabs are originally Guhayna and trace their descent to that tribe.
LII The Ta'ai'sha and the Habbania and the Awlad Hamayd and Selim are descendants of Hammad ibn Gunayd. The Hawazma