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Excerpt from A History of Arabic Literature
Whence did this people spring? By language and ethnological conformation, it certainly belongs to the great Semite group, which is scattered over the whole of hither Asia. The Peninsula may possibly have been populated by a migration of tribes from the lower Babylonian plains. Yet its traditions betray some cross breeding with African races. At a very early period the slave-trade had carried negroes to Arabian soil. It is a curious fact that the Arabs themselves ascribe pure Arab blood to the Yemen populations, whom we know to be allied by race and dialect with the Ethiopians; and accept as a more recent source of their own nationality, a Semite emigration, led by Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar, or the issue of his marriage with a daughter of Yemen. Be that as it may, it was the struggle between the descendants of Qahtan, King of Sheba, and the children of ¢adrian, of the house of Ish mael, and the wars of the tribes connected with them, whose migrations led them hither and thither across the mountains and over the wide sand wastes, which evoked the poetic genius of Arabia.
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