Amun is right, most of the African slaves exported to Arabia, Ottoman Empire were sub-Saharan Bantus, Nilotes etc. The Blacks of the Gulf are overwhelmingly Bantu. The Cushitic/Habasha Ethiopian slaves were not sent to Palestine, Gurage are grouped with the Habasha and are not linguistically Cushitic. Most were females and children exported in the 19th century to Southern Arabia (Saudi Arabia and Yemen).
Their does not exist a distinct Black population of Ethiopian ancestry in the Middle East apart from the Jabartis of Yemen. By contrast, the Khaals of Bantu descent have a visible presence in the Gulf countries. Look at the Saudi, UAE, Oman etc. football teams. Bear in mind that not every Black football player is of slave ancestry. Pele of the Desert, Majeed Abdullah, was Sudanese; Mahmoud Soufi of Qatar was Somali etc. Even Iraq has a sizeable population of people with Bantu African ancestry; check out the Iraqi Zanj Rebellion of the Abbasid era.
Somalis should have extensively bred with the attractive female slaves that came their way instead of shipping them off to the Arabs.
Their does not exist a distinct Black population of Ethiopian ancestry in the Middle East apart from the Jabartis of Yemen. By contrast, the Khaals of Bantu descent have a visible presence in the Gulf countries. Look at the Saudi, UAE, Oman etc. football teams. Bear in mind that not every Black football player is of slave ancestry. Pele of the Desert, Majeed Abdullah, was Sudanese; Mahmoud Soufi of Qatar was Somali etc. Even Iraq has a sizeable population of people with Bantu African ancestry; check out the Iraqi Zanj Rebellion of the Abbasid era.
Somalis should have extensively bred with the attractive female slaves that came their way instead of shipping them off to the Arabs.
