Ja'alin tribe

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The Ja'alin, Ja'aliya, Ja'aliyin or Ja'al (Arabic: جعليون) are a Sudanese Arab tribe in Sudan. They are also called "Ja'alin proper" to differentiate them from the Ja'alin federation, which includes a variety of Sudanese tribes in northern Sudan who trace their origins to the same ancestor, an Abbasid called Ibrahim Ja'al, yet constitute tribes of their own. The Ja'ali heartland stretches from Nile-Atbara confluence in the north to the sixth Nile cataract in the south. The Ja'alin claim an Arab descent, while scholars sometimes refer to them as "Arabised Nubians".

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