.али,  видиш Турци су њих видели, на као своје, него као 
Арапе., да не кажем  Арабљане, Арабанасе, Арбљанасе..
У 17,. веку , путописац Евлија Челебија у "“Seyahatname”-у .. закључио је да потичу од предисламског северноарапског племена Курејши.
Он чак и зна ко је отац балканских Албанаца- арапски шеик 
Jabal-i Alhama јер је у 17.веку била жива легенда о њему међу Албанцима.
Travelling through southern Albania in 1670, Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi (1611-1684) recounts the apocryphal legend of the 
Arab sheikh Jabal-i Alhama, who fled to the mountains of Kurvelesh in Albania and died in Elbasan. According to Evliya, he is
 the father of the Albanian people. ..Jabal-i Alhama subsequently died as a Muslim in the city of Elbasan. In the Tuhfa history, there is extensive information on this tribe. 
This clan of Quraysh actually do look like Arabs, and in addition to all their other weapons, they do use bows and arrows.
http://www.albanianliterature.net/oral_lit3/OL3-11.html
 Jabal-i Alhama himself was of the Quraysh tribe ... and was a courageous Arab chieftain and ghazi who offered the Holy Prophet the heads and 
tongues of many prisoners...Jabal-i Alhama was given the mountains ... in the Albanian regions of 
Vlora and Delvina to live in, 
http://www.albanianhistory.net/en/texts1000-1799/AH1670_1.html
http://books.google.rs/books?id=QHd...a=X&ei=0azeU-nPGNPa4QS73oCgAg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg