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href="/wiki/Jeddah" title="Jeddah">Jeddah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> (mostly <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Afro-Arabs" title="Afro-Arabs">Afro-Arabs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afro-Jordanians" title="Afro-Jordanians">Afro-Jordanians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afro-Palestinians" title="Afro-Palestinians">Afro-Palestinians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afro-Syrians" title="Afro-Syrians">Afro-Syrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afro-Iraqis" title="Afro-Iraqis">Afro-Iraqis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afro-Omanis" title="Afro-Omanis">Afro-Omanis</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Afro-Saudis</b>, also known as <b>African Saudis</b> and <b>Black Saudis</b>, are <a href="/wiki/Saudis" title="Saudis">Saudi</a> citizens of partial or full <a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">black African</a> heritage. They are spread all around the country, but they are mostly found in the major cities of <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afro-Saudis speak <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> and adhere to <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While some black Saudis descend from slaves brought through the <a href="/wiki/Arab_slave_trade" title="Arab slave trade">Arab slave trade</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the majority descend from Muslim <a href="/wiki/Pilgrims" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilgrims">pilgrims</a>, primarily from <a href="/wiki/West_Africa" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>, who settled in the cities of <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeddah" title="Jeddah">Jeddah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obaid_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obaid-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term "takarnah", meaning people of <a href="/wiki/Takrur" title="Takrur">takrur</a>, is sometimes used to refer to Hejazis of West African descent,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though their origins are diverse. This is evident in family names such as <a href="/wiki/Hausa_people" title="Hausa people">Hawsawi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fallata" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallata">Fallatah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Borno_State" title="Borno State">Bernawi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obaid_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obaid-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afro-Saudis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bilal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bilal.jpg/220px-Bilal.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="366" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bilal.jpg/330px-Bilal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Bilal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="431" data-file-height="718" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bilal_ibn_Rabah" title="Bilal ibn Rabah">Bilal ibn Rabah</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Abyssinia" title="Abyssinia">Abyssinian</a> who was enslaved by <a href="/wiki/Pre-Islamic_Arabia" title="Pre-Islamic Arabia">Pre-Islamic Arabs</a> was <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam's</a> first <a href="/wiki/Muezzin" title="Muezzin">Muezzin</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> have been in contact starting with the obsidian exchange networks of the 7th millennium BC. These networks were strengthened by the rise of Egyptian dynasties of the 4th millennium BC. Anthropologists have indicated the likely existence of settlements in Arabia, from the people of the <a href="/wiki/Horn_of_Africa" title="Horn of Africa">Horn of Africa</a>, as early as the 3rd and 2nd millenniums BC.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many Afro-Saudis are descendants of slaves, trafficked mainly via the Ancient <a href="/wiki/Red_Sea_slave_trade" title="Red Sea slave trade">Red Sea slave trade</a>. Historically, the institution of slavery in the region of the later Saudi Arabia was reflected in the institution of <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Slavery in the Rashidun Caliphate">slavery in the Rashidun Caliphate</a> (632–661) <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate">slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate</a> (661–750), <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate">slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate</a> (750–1258), <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Mamluk_Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate">slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate</a> (1258–1517) and finally <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Slavery in the Ottoman Empire">slavery in the Ottoman Empire</a> (1517–1918). <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Slavery in Saudi Arabia">Slavery in Saudi Arabia</a> was not abolished until 1962. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afro-Saudis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2021, their population was 1,880,000, or around 5% of Saudi Arabia's 35,950,000 population.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_condition">Social condition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afro-Saudis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Social condition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Slaves in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> were allowed to own land. Children of two slaves were born into slavery, however the child of a free man and his <a href="/wiki/Islamic_views_on_concubinage" title="Islamic views on concubinage">concubine</a> (sex slave) were not born a slave if the father awknowledged fatherhood. Islamic Law allowed for Muslims to enslave non-Muslims, unless they were <a href="/wiki/Zimmis" class="mw-redirect" title="Zimmis">zimmis</a> (protected minorities who had accepted Muslim rule), and slaves were therefore non-Muslims imported from non-Muslim lands outside of the Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the conversion of a non-Muslim slave to Islam after their enslavement did not require the enslaver to manumit his slave.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Skin color played a distinctive role even amongst slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many activists amongst Afro-Saudis complain that they are not given media representation and are unable to find opportunities to improve their social condition.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_Afro-Saudis">Notable Afro-Saudis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afro-Saudis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notable Afro-Saudis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Al-Dokhi" title="Ahmed Al-Dokhi">Ahmed Al-Dokhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandar_bin_Sultan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bandar bin Sultan">Bandar bin Sultan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reema_bint_Bandar_Al_Saud" title="Reema bint Bandar Al Saud">Reema bint Bandar Al Saud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faisal_bin_Bandar_bin_Sultan_Al_Saud" title="Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud">Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khalid_bin_Bandar_Al_Saud_(born_1977)" title="Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (born 1977)">Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (born 1977)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baraka_Al_Yamaniyah" title="Baraka Al Yamaniyah">Baraka Al Yamaniyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muqrin_bin_Abdulaziz" title="Muqrin bin Abdulaziz">Muqrin bin Abdulaziz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Hussein_Al_Amoudi" title="Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi">Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Al-Deayea" title="Abdullah Al-Deayea">Abdullah Al-Deayea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Al-Khaibari" title="Abdullah Al-Khaibari">Abdullah Al-Khaibari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbas_Al-Shengeeti" title="Abbas Al-Shengeeti">Abbas Al-Shengeeti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firas_Al-Buraikan" title="Firas Al-Buraikan">Firas Al-Buraikan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamad_Al-Montashari" title="Hamad Al-Montashari">Hamad 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Khariri">Saud Khariri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Abdulla" title="Ahmed Abdulla">Ahmed Abdulla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rayyanah_Barnawi" title="Rayyanah Barnawi">Rayyanah Barnawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Al-Deayea" title="Mohamed Al-Deayea">Mohamed Al-Deayea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukhtar_Ali" title="Mukhtar Ali">Mukhtar Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Al-Deayea" title="Sultan Al-Deayea">Sultan Al-Deayea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khaled_Aziz" title="Khaled Aziz">Khaled Aziz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redha_Tukar" title="Redha Tukar">Redha Tukar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afro-Saudis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Slavery in Saudi 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