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ASHRAP (SHUREFA, SHERIFS)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 733 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASHRAP (SHUREFA, SHERIFS) , a small scattered tribe of
African
 "
Arabs
  " settled near Tokar, in the valleys of the Gash and Baraka, and in the Amarar country north of
Suakin
 . They
call
  themselves Beni Ilashin, and claim descent from
Mahomet
 ; hence their name, sherif (pluial ashraf) being the
title
  applied todescendants of the prophet. In the time of the
khalifa
  Abdulla (1885-1898), Ashrkf was the name by which the family and adherents of 'his
late
  master the mandi Were known, the mandi's family claiming to, be Ashraf: The Ashraf of Tokar remained loyal to
Egypt
  during the Sudan troubles.
See Anglo-Egyptran Sudan, edited by
Count
  Gletchen (London, 1905); Fire and Sward in the Sudan, by Slatin Pasha (London, 1896); for the Ashraf or Sherifs iri''Arttbia, see ARABIA: Geography.


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