Ja'alin tribe
Ja'alin جعليون | |
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Ethnicity | Sudanese Arabs |
Location | Nile river basin between Khartoum and Abu Hamad |
Population | 3,845,000[1] |
Demonym | Ja'ali |
Language | Sudanese Arabic[1] |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
The Ja'alin, Ja'aliya, Ja'aliyin or Ja'al (
Origin
The Ja'alin are of
History
According to their own tradition, the Ja'alin emigrated to Sudan in the 12th century with the Nile valley, but have settled in the Sudan before the Shaigiya. Since the 16th century, they were formerly tributaries to the Sultanate of Sennar.[16]
At the Egyptian invasion in 1820 they were the most powerful of Arab tribes in the Nile valley. They submitted at first, but in 1822 rebelled and massacred the Egyptian garrison at Shendi with the Mek Nimr, a Ja'ali King (mek) burning Ismail, Muhammad Ali Pasha's son and his cortege at a banquet. The revolt was mercilessly suppressed, and the Ja'alin were thence forward looked on with suspicion. They were almost the first of the northern tribes to join the Mahdi in 1884, and it was their position to the north of Khartoum which made communication with General Gordon so difficult. The Ja'alin then became a semi-nomad agricultural people.[13]
The
Location
This group of over four million people live in cities and large towns along the banks of the Nile River, especially in the ancient town of Shendi which has historically served as their tribal capital. The area is very hot and dry, with an average yearly rainfall of about three inches. In the summer, which lasts from April through November, daytime temperatures can reach as high as 120 to 130 °F (49 to 54 °C).[citation needed]
Lifestyle
Some Ja'alin still farm and raise livestock along the banks of the Nile River, but in the 21st century, they more commonly make up a large part of the Sudanese urban population, forming a large part of the merchant class. Although many have moved to cities, such as the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, they still maintain their tribal identity and solidarity. Famous for maintaining ties with their origins, they keep in contact with their original home and return for frequent visits, especially for marriages, funerals and Muslim festivals.[1]
Language
The Ja'alin entirely speak Sudanese Arabic. In 1889, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain claimed that the Arabic spoken in Sudan was "a pure but archaic Arabic". The pronunciation of certain letters was like Hijazi, and not Egyptian, such as g being the pronunciation for the Arabic letter Qāf and J being the pronunciation for Jeem.[16] According to a source, the tribe allegedly once spoke a now extinct dialect of Nubian as late as the nineteenth century.[14]
Sub-groups
Historically, a small group called the Meyrifab was sometimes classed with the Ja'alin, but the Ja'alin themselves rejected this inclusion.[21]
See also
- Zubayrids
Notes
- ^ a b c "Gaalin in Sudan". Joshua Project. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-84162-413-6.
Arab tribes arrived in Sudan in three main waves, beginning in the 12th century with the Ja'alin.
- ^ The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1888. p. 16.
The Ja'alin claim descent from Abbas, the uncle of Muhammad, of the Koreish tribe, and they are undoubtedly of Arab origin
- ISBN 978-3-643-90928-2.
the tribal story of the Gamuia [is] a tribe of Arab descent who claim to be one of the Jaalin confederations of Arabs.
- ^ Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1914. p. 130.
The boy was an Arab belonging to the Jaalin tribe
- ISBN 978-0-520-01789-4.
but we also find among them people of Arab origin, e.g. the Ja'alin or Jaliya, and the Tshrata.
- ISBN 978-0-436-23288-6.
Abdurahman Wad-el-Nejumi, Commander-in-Chief of the Dervish Force which recently invaded Egypt, was by birth an Arab of the JAALIN tribe, a powerful and warlike race of arabs
- ^ Gleichen, Lord Edward (1905). The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: A Compendium Prepared by Officers of the Sudan Government. H. M. Stationery Office. p. 360.
Jaalin Tribe, Arab
- ISBN 978-0-8371-7233-0.
The main Arab tribes are Shaigia and Jaalin, light-coloured.
- ^ a b Adams 1977, pp. 557-558: "Although claiming a purely Arab pedigree, they [the Ja'alin] are in fact made up overwhelmingly of Arabized Nubians, with only a small admixture of genuinely Arab blood".
- ^ a b Holt 1970, p. 329: "(...) most of the settled clans of the main Nile are regarded as descendants of a certain Ja'al, who is, furthermore, stated to have been an 'Abbasid. Disregarding this assertion (a typical genealogical sophistication), we may reasonably see in these Ja'aliyyun the descendants of the arabized Nubians of the late Middle Ages".
- ^ a b Kramer, Lobban & Fluehr-Lobban 2013, p. 223: "Despite their claim of an Arab pedigree, the Ja'aliyin may also be considered a southern group of Arabized Nubians".
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jā'alin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 103. Citation: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905) One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ ISBN 0416774504. pp.28-29
- ISBN 9781473854963.
- ^ JSTOR 2841664(see pages 16 and 17)
- ^ ‘An Officer’ (1899). Sudan Campaign 1896-1899. Chapman & Hall London, Chapter VII.
- ^ Philip Ziegler (1973). Omdurman. Collins. p. 55.
- ^ Winston Churchill (1899). The River War volume 2. Longmans. pp. 57, 91–93.
- ^ Philip Ziegler (1973). Omdurman. Collins. pp. 47 & 90.
- ^ The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1888.
Literature
- Adams, William Y. (1977). Nubia. Corridor to Africa. Princeton University. ISBN 0691093709.
- Holt, P. M. (1970). "The Nilotic Sudan". In P. M. Holt; Ann K. S. Lambton; Bernard Lewis (eds.). The Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 2A. Cambridge University.
- Ibrahim, Abdullahi Ali (1988). "Breaking the Pen of Harold Macmichael: The Ja'aliyyin Identity Revisited". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 21 (2). African Studies Center: 217–231. JSTOR 219934.
- Kramer, Robert S.; Lobban, Richard A. Jr.; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. The Scarecrow. ISBN 978-0810861800.