Aramaeans, and not Arabs, are all the Arabic-speaking People of the Middle East - the Greek Orientalist Prof. M. S. Megalommatis deletes the False History of the Anglo-French Colonials ΑΝΑΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΕΝΕΡΓΟ ΜΠΛΟΓΚ “ΟΙ ΡΩΜΙΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ” Το κείμενο του κ. Νίκου Μπαϋρακτάρη είχε αρχικά δημοσιευθεί την 7η Φεβρουαρίου 2019. First republished on 18th September 2021 here: https://profmegalommatistextsingreek.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/αραμαίοι-κι-όχι-άραβες-είναι-όλοι-οι-αρ/

1. Αραμαίοι κι όχι
Άραβες είναι όλοι οι
Αραβόφωνοι της
Μέσης Ανατολής – ο
Έλληνας Ανατολιστής
καθ. Μ. Σ.
Μεγαλομμάτης
σβύννει την ψευτο-
ιστορία των
Αγγλογάλλων αποικιο
κρατών
https://greeksoftheorient.wordpress.com/2019/0
2/07/αραμαίοι-κι-όχι-άραβες-είναι-όλοι-οι-αρ/

2. ==================
Οι Ρωμιοί της Ανατολής –
Greeks of the Orient
Ρωμιοσύνη,Ρωμανία, Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή
Αυτοκρατορία
Σε ένα σύντομο αλλά συνταρακτικό για τις
αλήθειες που υπογραμμίζει άρθρο, ο
Έλληνας ανατολιστής ιστορικός καθ.
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης
σβύννει τα αισχρά ψέμματα των δυτικών
πανεπιστημίων, την ψευτο-ιστορία που
έφτειαξαν Γάλλοι κι Άγγλοι αποικιοκράτες,
και την εικονική πραγματικότητα που
παρουσιάζουν στην Μέση Ανατολή όλοι:
Αμερικανοί, Ρώσσοι, Τούρκοι, Ιρανοί, κι
Ισραηλινοί.

3. Η οργάνωση Αράμ Ναχρίν (: Αράμ
Μεσοποταμία) των συγχρόνων Αραμαίων
ζητάει τμήματα της Συρίας, του Ιράκ, και
της Τουρκίας για να δημιουργηθεί ένα
εθνικό αραμαϊκό κράτος.
Εγκατεστημένοι στην Ευρώπη και στην
Βόρεια Αμερική κατά το μεγαλύτερο τμήμα

4. τους, οι Αραμαίοι της Διασποράς βρήκαν
στο πρόσωπο του Έλληνα ανατολιστή καθ.
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη τον
αληθινό υποστηρικτή του αγώνα τους
εναντίον πρώτα των Άγγλων και Γάλλων
αποικιοκρατών και στην συνέχεια των
Αμερικανών, των Ισραηλινών και
τυφλωμένων ψευτο-Αράβων εθνικιστών ή
ισλαμιστών. Γι’ αυτό και συστηματικά
αναδημοσιεύουν άρθρα του διακεκριμένου
Έλληνα ανατολιστή στα πόρταλς, στα σάιτς
και στα μπλογκς τους.

5. Ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης όχι μόνον ανέτρεψε κι
απέρριψε την ψευτοϊστορία που διδάσκουν
τα δυτικά πανεπιστήμια, όχι μόνον
κατάλαβε πριν από οποιονδήποτε άλλον ότι
στην Μέση Ανατολή οι αποικιοκράτες
έστησαν μια εικονική πραγματικότητα για
να εξαφανίσουν πραγματικά έθνη και να
εμφανίσουν πλασματικά ψευτοέθνη
(‘Άραβες’ κι ‘Ισραηλινούς’) σε
προσχεδιασμένους πολέμους, αλλά και
απαίτησε με επανειλημμένες δημοσιεύσεις

6. του από τους Αμερικανούς το 2005 να
δημιουργήσουν ένα ομόσπονδο κρατίδιο
Αράμ μέσα στο τότε υπό διαμόρφωση μετα-
σανταμικό Ιράκ, ώστε εκεί να
συγκεντρωθούν οι Αραμαίοι του Ιράκ και
της Διασποράς και να στηθεί μια
χριστιανική αραμαϊκή υπόσταση – εμπόδιο
στους τρομοκράτες που ακόμη δεν είχαν
εμφανιστεί.

7. Αραμαϊκά βασίλεια του τέλους της 2ης και
του 1ου μισού της 1ης προχριστιανικής
χιλιετίας
Αραμαϊκή τοιχογραφία από την Παλμύρα
(Ταντμόρ, Συρία) με απεικόνιση
τελετουργίας και προσφοράς λιβανωτών

8. Χάρη στους Αραμαίους που ήταν οι
κυρίαρχοι έμποροι στους δρόμους του
μεταξιού, των μπαχαρικών και των
λιβανωτών και χάρη στα αραμαϊκά, διεθνή
γλώσσα από τη Μεσόγειο μέχρι την Κίνα
για περισσότερο από μια χιλιετία, διαδόθηκε
ο νεστοριανισμός μέχρι την Ινδία, την
Κεντρική Ασία, και την Κίνα.

9. Η διάδοση του Μανιχεϊσμού από τον
Ατλαντικό μέχρι τον Ειρηνικό οφείλεται
επίσης στους Αραμαίους και στα αραμαϊκά.
Στο παρόν άρθρο του, το οποίο
αναδημοσιεύω ολόκληρο, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης
εξηγεί ότι στους Αραμαίους οφείλεται

10. βασικά και η επιβολή του πρώιμου Ισλάμ
και η σταθεροποίηση των πρώτων
χαλιφάτων.
Τα αραβικά ως γραφή είναι μια εξέλιξη των
αραμαϊκών.
Τα αραβικά ως γλώσσα είναι μια αραμαϊκή
συριακή διάλεκτος.
Οι Αραμαίοι ήταν είτε μονοφυσίτες είτε
νεστοριανοί. Όπου και αν κατοικούσαν, είτε
στην Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία,
είτε στο Σασανιδικό Ιράν, ήταν εναντίον του
τοπικού κράτους λόγω της καταπίεσης των
ανατολικών χριστιανισμών και στις δύο
αυτοκρατορίες.
Ως Ανατολικοί Χριστιανοί, οι Αραμαίοι
συνειδητά προτίμησαν το πρώιμο Χαλιφάτο.
Και όσοι – λίγοι αρχικά – αποδέχθηκαν το
Ισλάμ και όσοι παρέμειναν Μονοφυσίτες και
Νεστοριανοί προτίμησαν να καταβάλουν τον
ειδικό φόρο των μη μουσουλμάνων στο
Ομεϋαδικό Χαλιφάτο της Δαμασκού παρά να
εξοντώνονται στο Ιράν και να καταπιέζονται

11. / καταδιώκονται στην Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή
Αυτοκρατορία.
Και ο πληθυσμός των Αραμαίων της Συρίας
και της Μεσοποταμίας, όπως κι ο
πληθυσμός των Υεμενιτών (που είχαν
προσχωρήσει στο Ισλάμ χωρίς να είναι
εθνικά-φυλετικά-γλωσσικά Άραβες), ήταν
πολλαπλάσιος των ολιγάριθμων Αράβων.
Οπότε, όταν το 642 ισλαμικά στρατεύματα
καταλάμβαναν την Αλεξάνδρεια στα δυτικά
και το Ιράν στα ανατολικά, η πλειοψηφία
τους ήταν ήδη μη αραβική – αραμαϊκή και
υεμενική.
Συνεπώς, όσοι Άραβες εγκαταστάθηκαν
στην Συρία ή την Μεσοποταμία, όπως και
αργότερα στην Αφρική, ήταν μια ελάχιστη
μειοψηφία ανάμεσα στον τοπικό πληθυσμό
και φυλετικά αφομοιώθηκαν μέσα στους
Αραμαίους (και αντιστοιχα στους
Αιγύπτιους, τους Βέρβερους και τους
Καρχηδόνιους της Βόρειας Αφρικής).

12. Σε άλλο άρθρο του, το οποίο θα
αναδημοσιεύσω σύντομα, ο κ. Μγαλομμάτης
εξηγεί γιατί ο εξαραβισμός των Αραμαίων
είναι μόνον γλωσσικός κι όχι πολιτιστικός –
μορφωτικός: ουσιαστικά οι Άραβες με το
που αποδέχθηκαν το Ισλάμ εξαραμαΐσθηκαν
πολιτισμικά, μορφωτικά και θρησκευτικά.
Το κήρυγμα του Μωάμεθ ήταν ένα είδος
αιρετικού εκχριστιανισμού των Αράβων και
το πρώιμο Ισλάμ είχε θεωρηθεί στην
Κωνσταντινούπολη ως χριστολογική αίρεση
– ένας ακραίος νεστοριανισμός.
The Aramaeans’ rise will
transfigure the Middle Eastern
Chessboard

13. http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/Muh
ammad_Shamsaddin_Aramaeans-Rise-
Middel-East-10-8-2005.htm
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The Aramaeans’ rise will transfigure the
Middle Eastern Chessboard (10-8-2005)
Most people all over the world ignore the
basic fact that is at the epicenter of most
of the problems and thorny issues we
attest in the Middle East, at least its
Asiatic, so-called ‘Arabic – speaking’
part. This fact has to do with the real
ethnic – historical identity of the people
who live in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel,
Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Emirates and
Qatar. At this initial point, we specify
that we do not refer to the Jewish Israelis,
to the Kurds of Iraq and Syria, or to the
Armenian Diaspora. We focalize on the
Arabic speaking people, who live in the
aforementioned countries. To them we add
the Arabic speaking people, who live in
some parts of South-Eastern Turkey

14. (Hatay, Urfa, Cizre) and in the province
Khuzestan of Iran.
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin
Megalommatis, Orientalist
(http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-9-
2005-74536.asp?viewPage=5)
The basic fact is that all these
populations are only Arabic – speaking;
they are not Arabs. Their ethnic
historical identity is Aramaic. Aramaeans
are Semitic, but as distant from the Arabs
as the Ancient Hebrews were from the
Babylonians. For reasons we are going to
explain, these Aramaean populations got
gradually arabized, but the arabization
phenomenon took place at the linguistic
level only, not at the ethnic, national,
cultural levels.
Taking into consideration this fact, we
understand easily that only grave
problems may result from an abnormal
and preposterous situation in which (as it

15. occurred over the past two centuries) a
people becomes the standard-bearer of the
nationalism of another! To what extent
could it be considered as normal for the
Germans to become the paragons of the
French nationalism?
Language does not imply Culture, and
even more so language does not entail
ethnic – national identity. To what
extent an English native speaker, who
happens to be an African American, let’s
say a Black US citizen, could pretend to
be of … Anglo-Saxon origin, and therefore
to be properly entitled to express ideas
and ideologies pertaining to Anglo-Saxon
nationalism?
Arabic – speaking people are Aramaeans,
not Arabs.
In the same way African Americans are
not Anglo-Saxons, although English is
their native tongue, Arabic – speaking
Aramaeans throughout the Asiatic Middle

16. East cannot be considered as Arabs,
although Arabic is their native tongue.
Of course, this historical reality is known
to the great majority of the people in the
area; however, it is not properly assessed
and reflected at the level of national
political discourses, political debates,
academic conferences, and intellectual
life. The reason for this is the diffusion of
colonial culture and education, and the
ensuing Arab nationalism (and the Pan-
Arabism) which is a purely colonial
product geared to diffuse historical
confusion, to cause ethnic identity loss,
and to end up in absolute national
disorientation after the colonial
administrations (France and England)
moved away.
The Colonial Anti-Aramaic Scheme
One should not take this as a unique
case; Egyptians, Berbers and others
became the victims of colonial falsified
versions of history or anti-historical

17. ideologies and totalitarian dogmas. To
analyze the colonial scheme against the
Aramaeans, one should examine the
various reasons and the historical geo-
strategic data.
In their fight against the Ottoman Empire
and the Safevid Empire of Iran, the
Christian European powers, France,
England, Holland, Portugal and Spain,
tried first to manipulate and to
instrumentalize the Christian
populations that lived in the vast area of
the two Islamic countries. They used
Vatican and the Pope up to the extent
there were common interests. When we
examine historical situations going back
to the middle of the 16th century, we
must bear in mind that something like
that was not quite easy, because the
Oriental Christians, Orthodox,
‘Monophysitic’ and ‘Nestorian’ had not
forgotten the cruelty of the Crusaders, who
were then a relatively recent but

18. absolutely abominable memory. Being
oblivious of the anti-Christian cruelty of
the Catholic Crusaders, one is led to total
misunderstanding of the History of the
Middle East. However, the Western powers
had some early success among the
Nestorians, who spoke Eastern Syriac, a
late Aramaic language. The Western
success meant of course total collapse of
that Christian denomination, involving
schism, fratricide conflicts, and religious
apostasy (before those days, the Nestorians
had not used icons at all).
It is therefore clear that the Anti-Aramaic
scheme started even before Napoleon’s
expedition to Egypt, and signified sheer
deterioration of the religious division
with the same people.
When the colonial scheme of total
dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire
was conceived, it was clear to the Western
diplomatic and academic plotters that, if
the Turkish and Greek speaking

19. populations had to be left apart in the
area of today’s Turkey, and the Kurds
should be delineated in the surrounding
mountains that bordered with Iran, the
rest of the Asiatic dominions of the
Sublime Porte were inhabited mostly by
Aramaeans; the only exceptions in that
vast area were the Yemenites who lived in
Yemen, and the Arabs who lived in
Arabia, i.e. the Najd desert and Hedjaz,
the mountainous area of the Arabian
peninsula in the north of Yemen and in
the south of the Gulf of Akaba, between
the desert and the Red Sea.
Through the diffusion of nationalisms,
France intended to create a completely
different world than that of the Medieval
Europe and the Islamic – Ottoman
Middle East, and the ensuing multi-
division would serve the interests of the
colonial powers, either militarily and
administratively present or not. However,
multi-division would be only one means!

20. Colonially exported nationalisms and
academic disciplines could vary
tremendously according to the locally
specific interests of the colonizing power.
In Greece, the colonial falsehood signified
an amalgamation of various ethnic
groups, Albanians, Vlachians and Slavs,
plus a fake identification with the
Ancient Greeks, which was intensified
following an increased interest for the
Pre-Christian Antiquity. In this case,
differences among various elements were
under-accentuated.
In Egypt, the colonial falsehood heralded
a lack of interest for the Antiquity, an
under-evaluation of the Coptic character
of the country, and a focus on the Arabic
language in view of the Arab
nationalism, the fake identification that
was under fabrication.
In Aram Nahrain, as is the correct name
of all the lands between Turkey, Iran, the
Arabic desert ant the Mediterranean, the

21. colonial falsehood was geared to generate
a lack of interest for the Pre-Christian
and Christian Antiquity, to deteriorate
the religious divisions, and to lead to the
fake identification. In this case,
differences among various elements were
over-accentuated.
It was obviously necessary for France and
England that, when the short perspective
of their military and administrative
presence would end in the Asiatic parts of
the Ottoman Empire, the local people do
not have any idea of identity, any
perception of their homogeneity, any
chance of political union.
So, the differences were stressed among
‘Nestorian’ Christian Aramaeans, who
were deadlocked in their schism (due to
their attitude to the Pope); the divergence
among the various ‘Monophysitic’,
Orthodox and Catholic Aramaeans
increased. Every effort was undertaken to
dissociate Christian Aramaeans from

22. Muslim (Shia or Sunni) Aramaeans, so
that the latter be more easily exposed to
the sort of Pan-Arabic falsehood and fake
identity French ‘academia’ prepared for
them during the 19th century.
It was obvious that, if after the end of the
forthcoming colonial administration, all
the populations living in the area of
today’s Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel,
Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and
Emirates had a proper national identity
perception and feeling, one country would
be formed in all this area (instead of 9!),
and this country – having a correct
national historical identity – would be
difficult to maneuver and manipulate.
Parallel colonial machinations against
the Aramaeans
So, several attitudes were pursued in
parallel by the colonial powers;
first, the Muslim Aramaeans were left to
be gradually pulled by the rising bogus-

23. Arab identity and nationalism, up to the
point of being driven to complete oblivion
of their Aramaic identity.
Second, the Christian Aramaeans were
further misled through the false
nationalistic use of historical terms like
‘Assyrians’ and ‘Chaldaeans’. The name of
Assyria was used in various languages
after the collapse of the Assyrian Empire,
but it was always an academic use of an
erudite attitude. There were no more
Assyrians in Assyria after the collapse of
Nineveh and Assyria (614 – 612 – 609
BCE), and there was not a single Assyrian
text written ever since. The area of Assyria
became the epicenter of the Jewish
kingdom of Adiabene at the Parthian
Arsacid times, and later on it hosted
numerous Christian populations, mostly
Nestorians who faced persecutions within
both, the Roman Empire (there they were
thought to be heretic) and the Sassanid
Empire of Iran (there they were

24. erroneously viewed as Roman Fifth
Phalange). The use of the name of Assyria
by the Christian Church does not imply
that the Nestorian believers and followers
of the Church were … Assyrians! It was an
erudite academic and rather honorific
usage.
Out of it, colonial missionaries, political
agents, and diplomats made a huge lie
(namely that these Aramaeans are not
Aramaeans but ‘Assyrians’) with which
they disconnected the Nestorian
Aramaeans from their Aramaic identity.
Third, and at that point the religious
multi-division played a role, and pro-
Vatican ‘assyrian’ Aramaeans ‘opted’ for
another false national name,
‘Chaldaeans’. Quite ironically, modern
scholarship reconstructed the historical
reality that the Ancient Kaldu of the
Assyrian – Babylonian sources (term that
was altered to Chaldaeans in Greek) were
just one Aramaic tribe! So, these

25. Aramaeans, who want to call themselves
‘Chaldaeans’, are like some French, who
would suggest calling France ‘Burgundy’!
Fourth, the entire Orientalist
establishment of all countries involved in
these sectors of the Humanities proved to
be unable to compile one – just one (1)! –
Paperback volume of Concise History of
the Aramaic Nation that would be an
all-encompassing Ark of Aramaic
identity.
The linguistic arabization of the
Aramaeans; Arabic is derived from Syriac
Aramaic
We return here to the initial point,
according to which the ethnic historical
identity of the Arabic speaking people in
Asia (encompassing provinces of Turkey
and Iran, as well as the following
countries: Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,
Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar and
Emirates) is Aramaic.

26. The historical truth is as simple as that:
Aramaeans, who accepted Islam in
various moments over the past 14
centuries, gradually abandoned Aramaic
and spoke Arabic. The similarity of the
two languages and scriptures played a
certain role in this regard, facilitating
this shift.
Arabic scripture has derived from a late
Aramaic scripture that is called Syriac.
Syriac is written in various calligraphic
ways, and one of these ways was chosen to
write pre-Coranic Arabic approximately
300 years before Prophet Muhammad was
born.
This historical truth is taught in all the
academic establishments of the West, but
does not please the fanatic and extremist
sheikhs of Hatred, for whom Arabic was
the original writing from which all the
rest derived. This is completely irrelevant
of course, but the extremist sheikhs have
to support such ‘ideas’ since they follow

27. an erroneous interpretation of some
Coranic verses.
We mention this point here only to show
the colonial responsibility for the
extremist bogus-Islam. If the Aramaic
History were the object of correct and
pertinent search for and diffusion of
knowledge, if the Aramaeans were
permitted to have access to a true
historical identity that would bring the
Christian and the Muslim Aramaeans
together, if the falsehood of Pan-Arabism
were not propagated among the Arabic –
speaking Aramaeans, if educational
efforts of Aramaization were undertaken
in an adequate way, then the falsehood of
Pan-Arabism would not rise and merge
with the most erroneous Islamic beliefs to
produce another mistaken ‘topos’ of the
Islamic Extremism. We want here to
remind that the aforementioned wrong
interpretation of Coranic verses that leads
to the aberrational conclusion that

28. Arabic was the oldest language and
writing in the world did not prevail in
the Ages of Great Islamic Culture and
Science, and highly erudite scholars in
Baghdad, Andalusia, Ispahan, Istanbul
and Samarqand did not believe such
idiocies. And to close this point, we stress
that it is essential to understand that the
Islamic Terrorism is mainly a system of
beliefs, which means a certain number of
points (ideas, beliefs). The responsibility
for the Islamic Terrorism lies on those
who helped form these points into a
system.
The linguistic arabization of the
Aramaeans; all the Arab population at
the times of Prophet Muhammad did not
outnumber the inhabitants of just one
Aramaean city like Damascus, Nisibis,
Ctesiphon, Dura Europos, Palmyra, Homs,
or Edessa.
The linguistic arabization of the
Aramaeans was an exclusively linguistic

29. phenomenon. There was no racial –
ethnic dimension to it. By this, we do not
imply that there were no intermingling,
mixed marriages, and amalgamation of
races. But certainly this was a very
marginal phenomenon that did not make
of the population a mixed, let’s say
Aramaeo-Arabic, populace. The reasons
this phenomenon was marginal at the
racial – ethnic level are very simple; the
Arabs at the times of the Prophet
Muhammad were few in number. We
have extreme details about the
participants of meetings and gatherings,
about the warriors in various battles,
about the population of villages and
towns. And we have an estimate about
parts of the Roman and the Iranian
empires where the Aramaeans lived. We
can safely claim that the entire Arabic
population (that before Prophet
Muhammad preached Islam lived
exclusively in the Nafd desert and in
Hedjaz) did not outnumber the

30. inhabitants of just one Aramaean city
like Damascus, Nisibis, Ctesiphon, Dura
Europos, Palmyra, Homs, or Edessa.
In addition, a very common mistake for
Western historians of the Islamic
Caliphates is to take the number of
fighters in later battles and invasions as
an indication of Arabic population. This
is an aberration. Those who attacked
Constantinople fighting under the flags of
Muawiyah in 674 – 677 were not Arabs,
but in a small part of them. The outright
majority (more than 80% of that army)
was formed by Aramaeans, Yemenites,
Egyptians, Africans (Libyans, Berbers,
Abyssinians) Persians, and Greek-
speaking populations of the Eastern
Roman Empire, who had adhered to
Islam during the period 630 (preaching of
Ali in Yemen) – 674.
The proper reconstitution of the History of
the Middle East and the rise of the
Aramaic National Identity will be

31. instrumental in bringing the bogus-
Islamic terror to a dead end, and in
liberating large populations from the
falsehood of Pan-Arabism that caused
misery, barbarism and death to the
divided parts of the Illustrious Nation of
the Aramaeans.
Χασάνκευφ στο Τουρ Αμπντίν της ΝΑ
Τουρκίας - Το Τουρ Αμπντίν αποτελεί τον
Άθω του Μιαφυσιτισμού (Μονοφυσιτισμού)
και των Αραμαίων όλου του κόσμου

32. Μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε το άρθρο του κ.
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