Amarar tribe explained

Group:	Amarar
Popplace:	Sudan and Eritrea
Languages:	Beja (Bidhaawyeet)
Religions:	Sunni Islam
Related:	Other Beja

Amarar (or Amenreer Wagerda’ Amarer) is a nomadic tribe of the Beja people inhabiting the mountainous country to the west 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 are said to be of Quraysh blood through Ammar Aqiili and to be the descendants of an invading Arab army.^[2] The Amarar speak a form of the Beja language that uses fewer loanwords than other groups that speak Beja.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Burckhardt. John Lewis. Travels in Nubia: by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. 1819. Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. 24 November 2016.
2. 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. Book: Bryan, M. A . 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 . 2018 . 978-1-351-60137-5 . 1004960798.