Eutychius of Alexandria: Nazm al-gauhar
(the Thread of the Beads) (d. 940 A.D.)
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Taken from:  J. Selden, Contextio Gemmarum, 2 vols. Oxford 1858/9

Also called: Sa’id ibn Batriq

Part1 p43

Then Ham (7) takes all music instruments and games and for that raison too he got cursed (6). He becomes the slave of his brothers, he and his posterity, who are the Copts, the Sudan, the Habacha, and as they say also the Barbar.

Part1 p54

... Descendants of Kana’an are: The Canaanites, the Philistines, the inhabitants of Misr (8): i.e. the Qibt (1), the Maris (2), the various races of Blacks (as-Sudan), the Habasha, the Nuba, the Beja (3), the Zanj, the Zutt (4), the Qarran, the Samaritans, (as-Samirah), the Zabayy (5), the Maghribis and the Barbar. They possess twenty-six islands, among which Sardinia, Malta, Crete and a part of Cyprus are found. They have six alphabets;
Egyptian, Nubian, Ethiopian, Faranj [sic! for friji], Punic and Kankali (Colchian?).

(1) Qibt: Copts of Egypt.

(2) Maris: the big province in Sudan just south of Aswan was called Maris. The Maris are also mentioned by Jirjis ibn aal Amib al-Makin (1260).

(3) Beja: people from Sudan. The Egyptians leaving from Aswan;  the southern border town on the Nile; have to cross their territory to reach the harbours on the Red Sea.

(4) Zutt: tribe from north-west India.

(5) Zabayy: Zabaj: one of the main islands of Indonesia (Sumatra).

(6) This is the curse of Ham which is repeated with variations by:

- Ibn Qutayba (880)

- Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi (897)

- Al-Kisa'i (d904)

- Al Tabari (922): collects all that was already written about the subject (including denials).

- Eutychius of Alexandria (940)

- Muhammad Bal'ami (10th)

- Grandson of Muhallib bin Muhammad bin Shadi (1126)

- Al Jawzi (1200): he denies the curse.

- Al-Qazwini (1283) in Atar al Bilad

- Al Rabghuzi (1300)

- Al Dimashqi (1325)

- Ibn Khaldun (1406): he denies the curse.

- al Maqrizi (1441)

- Mirkhond (1495)

- Alf layla wa Layla (15th)

- Suyuti (1505): in some of his books refutes it in others he just repeats it.

And many others.

(7) Ham: one of the three sons of Noa.

(8) Misr: other name for Egypt.