Al-Fakhar al-Sudan min al-Abyadh(why Blacks are better than whites)

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Al-Fakhar al-Sudan min al-Abyadh(why Blacks are better than whites)

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Al-Jahiz, a 9th century Arab theologian wrote in his book of Superiority of Blacks over whites:
Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people have a natural talent for dancing to the rhythm of the tambourine, without needing to learn it. There are no better singers anywhere in the world, no people more polished and eloquent, and no people less given to insulting language. No other nation can surpass them in bodily strength and physical toughness. One of them will lift huge blocks and carry heavy loads that would be beyond the strength of most Bedouins or members of other races. They are courageous, energetic, and generous, which are the virtues of nobility, and also good-tempered and with little propensity to evil. They are always cheerful, smiling, and devoid of malice, which is a sign of noble character.

My question is, when the Greek historians were talking about Azanians (in the 1st century AD) which starts somewhere like Warsheekh/Harardheere, who were they talking about if the Bantu expansion into the East African coast didn't happen by then?
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He was no Arab Al Jaaxid was a Nubian slave descendant.
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X.Playa wrote:He was no Arab Al Jaaxid was a Nubian slave descendant.
He was from the Banu Kinanah tribe you handi, as Arab as it gets.

He explains that some Arab tribes were indeed black due to mixing with slaves, same way most Arabs today aren't real Arab due to their Turkic, Persian, Indian blood(talking about real Arabs/Gulf Arabs). Heres another passage from the book:
The Zanj say that God did not make them black in order to disfigure them; rather it is their environment that made them so. The best evidence of this is that there are black tribes among the Arabs, such as the Banu Sulaim bin Mansur, and that all the peoples settled in the Harra, besides the Banu Sulaim are black. These tribes take slaves from among the Ashban to mind their flocks and for irrigation work, manual labor, and domestic service, and their wives from among the Byzantines; and yet it takes less than three generations for the Harra to give them all the complexion of the Banu Sulaim. This Harra is such that the gazelles, ostriches, insects, wolves, foxes, sheep, asses, horses and birds that live there are all black.
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No al jaaxid was slave of that tribe no different then most Arab slaves they claim the tribe that enslaved them. Thats the confusion.
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