Editing Ababda people (section)

== Origin and history ==
[[File:Bejamen1.jpg|thumb|left|Two Ababda men in 1848]]
Ababda tribal origin narratives identify them as an [[Arabs|Arab]] people from the [[Hijaz]], descended from [[Zubayr ibn al-Awwam]] (possibly through his son [[Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr]]) following the [[Muslim conquest of Egypt]].<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=Andrew |title=A History of the Beja Tribes of the Sudan |date=1954 |publisher=Frank Cass and Company, Ltd. |location=London |isbn=0714617105 |page=143}}</ref><ref name="The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert">{{cite book |last1=Abdel-Qadr |first1=Mustafa |last2=Wendrich |first2=Willeke |last3=Kosc |first3=Zbigniew |last4=Barnard |first4=Hans |title=The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert |date=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWmRDwAAQBAJ |type=History / Middle East / Egypt, Social Science / Archaeology, Social Science / Sociology / General, Desert people -- Congresses -- History -- Egypt -- Eastern Desert -- Antiquities, Eastern Desert (Egypt) -- Congresses -- Antiquities -- Antiquities, Roman, Excavations (Archaeology) -- Congresses -- Egypt -- Eastern Desert|publisher=The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-1-931745-96-3 |pages=399–418 |chapter=Giving a Voice to the Ababda}}</ref>

Many published sources in Western languages identify the Ababda as a subtribe of the [[Beja people|Beja]], or as descendants of speakers of a Cushitic language.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |editor1-last=Stokes |editor1-first=Jamie |title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East |date=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8160-7158-6 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=de Jong |first1=Rudolf |editor1-last=Arnold |editor1-first=Werner |editor2-last=Bobzin |editor2-first=Hartmut |title="Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!": 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik: Festschrift für Otto Jastrwo zum 60. Geburtstag |date=2002 |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |location=Wiesbaden |isbn=978-3447044912 |pages=337–360 |chapter=Notes on the dialect of the ʿAbābda}}</ref>

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