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Beni Ḥassān ( group, one of several Yemen i Maqil Arab Tribe s who emigrated in the Middle Ages to northwest Africa and present-day Western Sahara and Mauritania . They were preceded in much the same manner by the more well-known Bani Hilal Arabs. The Beni Hassan and other warrior Arab tribes managed to establish their dominance over the Sanhaja Berber tribes of the area, and after the Char Bouba War of the 17th century. As a result, Arab culture and language came to dominate, and the Berber tribes were more or less Arabized . The Bani Hassan's dialect of Arabic thus became the tongue of the region, and is still spoken in the form of Hassaniya Arabic. Beni Hassan claim to be descendants of their ancestor Maqil , once living in Tunisia . This Maqil had two sons Suhair and Mohammed. This Mohammed was the father of Muhtar, who was the father of Sabbana and Hassan, the Hassan from which the Beni Hassan took their name.
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There have been many attempts to assess the real extension of slavery in modern Mauritania, but these have mostly been frustrated by the Nouakchott government's official stance that the practice has been eliminated. In 1994, Amnesty International claimed that 90,000 Blacks still live as "property" of their master. The further estimated that some 300,000 freed slaves continued to serve their former masters because of psychological or economic dependence." It is also the name of the largest tribe in Jordan ; accounting for about 10% of the Jordanian population. REF
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