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Contents 1 Ghassanid families today 2 Aramco 3 Palestine? 3.1 Faulty links 3.2 Improper lead sentence

[edit] Ghassanid families today

Can someone please verify the families mentioned as Ghassanid? Skatewalk 16:53, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aramco

from the Aramco article. It seems there are a lot of questions about these Ghassanids- more questions than answers.:

Yet even for that dimly-illuminated, legend-enshrouded age, literary sources, when used judiciously and with extreme care, can shed light on a few key figures—such as al-Harith ibn Jabala of the Ghassan tribal confederation. [....] Scholars admit, however, that *any attempt to reconstruct Ghassanid history rests on exceedingly shaky ground until we reach the year 529,* when al-Harith ibn Jabala succeeded his father as head of the Bani Ghassan tribal confederation. [....] For the historian, perhaps the most frustrating problem in studying the Ghassanids is the relative lateness of the Arabic sources. [....] Coupled with the obvious fact that poets everywhere are creative artists and not academic historians, this makes it almost impossible for modern scholars to extract reliable historical data from the polished lyrics of the pre-Islamic bards. [....] The key Arab and Persian historians wrote long after Ghassan had ceased to exist, and though each used all written and oral sources available, their results sometimes *differ radically*. [....] Unfortunately, little is known about Ghassanid society, in al-Harith's time, or for that matter, in any other time, since most of the clans and tribes were nomadic, with no permanent capital other than an encampment at Jabiya, south of Damascus.

[edit] Palestine?

Is this page a propaganda page meant to assert the Arab authority over Palestine??? Juanita 23:41, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Why makes you say that? Tewfik^Talk 00:09, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Faulty links

I removed links in the last paragraph that are related to families since none of them actually links to where it is supposed to (one took me to a city in Cuba and another to a prominent Saudi Businessman!). Please do no put the [[ ]] just anywhere.

yemenites arent arabs! Michael 23:20, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Um, what? Yuber^(talk) 23:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improper lead sentence

This sentence should not be re-added without a reliable source that explicitly backs up the claim:

...and the Holy Land where they intermarried with Hellenized Roman settlers and Greek-speaking Early Christian communities.

Otherwise, WP:V allows it to be removed. Moreover, a sentence in the lead is supposed to summarize stuff that comes later in the article (WP:LEAD), but this fact about intermarriage just seems to come out of the blue. If a source can be found, then I still think it should be moved into the body of the article. nadav (talk) 23:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)