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Key keeper of the Kaaba from the Banu Shayba tribe/family (photo,1880). A subset of the Quraysh, the Shayba had been guardians of the Kaaba since before Muhammad’s time.  
Robert F. Spencer remarked: “It is said that the Quraysh explained their short stature and dark skin by the fact that they always carefully adhered to endogamy.” (Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group.) Robert F. Spencer, “The Arabian Matriarchate: An Old Controversy,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 8 (Winter, 1952) 488.
		
		
	
	
		
	
			
			Robert F. Spencer remarked: “It is said that the Quraysh explained their short stature and dark skin by the fact that they always carefully adhered to endogamy.” (Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group.) Robert F. Spencer, “The Arabian Matriarchate: An Old Controversy,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 8 (Winter, 1952) 488.