Amarar tribe

Amarar
Regions with significant populations
	Sudan and Eritrea
Languages
	Beja (Bidhaawyeet)
Religion
	Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
	Other Beja

Amarar (or Amenreer Wagerda’ Amarer) is a Cushitic nomadic tribe of the Beja people inhabiting the mountainous country on the west side of the Red Sea Suakin northwards and Eritrea towards Sudan. Between them and the Nile are the Ababda and Bisharin Beja tribes and to their south dwell the Hadendoa (another Beja subgroup).[1] The country of the Amarar is called the Atbai. Their main location is in the Ariab region. The tribe is divided into four great families: (1) Weled Gwilei, (2) Weled Aliab, (3) Weled Kurbab Wagadab, and (4) the Amarar proper of the Ariab district. They claim to be of Quraysh blood and to be the descendants of an invading Arab army. Possibly descendants of some small bands of Quraysh Arabs may have made an inroad and were upon Islam. [2] The Amarar are said to speak the purest form of the Beja language.[3]

References

Burckhardt, John Lewis (1819). Travels in Nubia: by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amarar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 781. This cites:
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905)
- Sir F. R. Wingate, Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891)
- A. H. Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (London, 1884).
Bryan, M. A (2018). Practical orthography of African languages ; Orthographe pratique des langues Africaines ; The distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic languages of Africa ; Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic languages of Africa and linguistic analyses. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-351-60137-5. OCLC 1004960798.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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[At_war_with_Bisharin-1] Burckhardt, John Lewis (1819). Travels in Nubia: by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. Retrieved 24 November 2016.

[EB1911-2] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amarar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 781. This cites:
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905)

Sir F. R. Wingate, Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891)

A. H. Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (London, 1884).

[3] Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905)

[4] Sir F. R. Wingate, Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891)

[5] A. H. Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (London, 1884).

[3] Bryan, M. A (2018). Practical orthography of African languages ; Orthographe pratique des langues Africaines ; The distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic languages of Africa ; Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic languages of Africa and linguistic analyses. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-351-60137-5. OCLC 1004960798.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)