Ausar
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:35 am Post subject: Abd' al-Lati during the middle ages on the Sa3eadi people |
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There is more tendency to Negroidism as Nubia is approached.
"Maqrizi and 'Abd Al-Latif' had already noted this in the fourteenth century, and any traveler who gets as far south as Aswan can see it for himself.
"The Saidi or Upper Egyptian, who lives in a drier and hotter climate, is taller, more bronzed, vigorous and muscular than the fellah of the Delta.
''It is rare that one encounters persons with a light complexion or ruddy complexion, the children are in general spare, deformed, and lack the freshness of complexion. Most of the men begin to improve in looks after the age of twenty. The inhabitants of the Said have a slenderer body, a drier temperature and a darker complexion; wrote 'Abd' al-Latif in his account of Egypt."
page 67
The Egyptian Peasant
Henery Ayrout Habib
Becon Press |
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