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'''Kabbabish''' ("goatherds": [[James Bruce]] derives the name from ''Kabsh'', [[sheep]], Arabic : كبش ), a tribe of [[African]] [[nomad]]s of [[Semitic]] origin. It is perhaps the largest "Arab" tribe in the Anglo-Egyptian [[Sudan]], and its many clans are scattered over the country extending SW from the province of [[Dongola]] to the confines of [[Darfur]]. The Kabbabish speak [[Arabic language|Arabic]], but their pronunciation differs much from that of the true Arabs. The Kabbabish have a tradition that they came from [[Tunisia]] and are of [[Mogrebin]] descent.A few remaining Kabbabish population live in the Maghreb (Tunisia especially) and can trace their arabo-berber ancestries to the Jlidates and their black ancestries to the Beja.But while the chiefs look like Arabs, the tribesmen resemble the [[Beja people|Beja]] family. They themselves declare that one of their clans, [[Kawahla]], is not of Kabbabish blood, but was affiliated to them long ago. Kawahla is a name of Arab formation, and J. L. Burckhardt spoke of the clan as a distinct one living about [[Abu Haraz]] and on the [[Atbara]]. The Kabbabish probably received Arab rulers, as did the [[Ababda]]. They are chiefly employed in cattle, camel and sheep breeding, and before the Sudan wars of 1883-1899 they had a monopoly of all transport from the [[Nile]], north of [[Abu Gussi]], to [[Kordofan]]. They also cultivate the lowlands which border the Nile, where they have permanent villages. They are of fine physique, dark with black wiry hair, carefully arranged in tightly rolled curls which cling to the head, with regular features and rather thick [[aquiline noses]]. Some of the tribes wear large hats like those of the [[Kabyles]] of [[Algeria]] and Tunisia. |
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See James Bruce, ''Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile'' (1790); [[A. H. Keane]], ''Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan'' (1884); ''Anglo-Egyptian Sudan'' (edited by Count Gleichen, 1905). {{1911}} |
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== In context == |
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"The area multiplies the desolation. There is life only by the Nile. If a man were to leave the river, he might journey westward and find no human habitation, nor the smoke of a cooking fire, except the lonely tent of a Kabbabish Arab or the encampment of a trader's caravan, till he reached the coast-line of America." Churchill describing the Sudan from ''The River War''. |
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