The Arabid race was a historical term used by ethnologists during the late 19th century and the early 20th century in an attempt to categorize a historically perceived racial division between peoples of Semitic ethnicities and peoples of other ethnicities.
Its proponents saw it as part of the so called Caucasian race or even of a subspecies labelled Homo sapiens europaeus.
[2] Modern scientific consensus based on genetics rejects the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense.
[3] In the early 20th century, Charles Gabriel Seligman described his perception of the occurrence of the "Arabid race" in the Sudan region: In the Sudan area, classic Arabid types can be found among the Kababish and certain other Arabic-speaking desert tribes collectively known as Sudanese Arabs.
Here, they often occur in solution with the local Hamitic Mediterranean type, which was the morphological taxon to which belonged the A-Group, C-Group and Meroitic culture makers, among certain other early populations in the region.