Obama's speech

[Ronald Kephart]

Folks,

I have a question. In President Obama's Cairo speech, there is this:

> The Holy Koran tells us:  "O mankind!  We have created you male and a female;
> and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one
> another."
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-U
> niversity-6-04-09/

What is the Arabic word/phrase that translates as ³mankind?² And, is it a
true generic (e.g. Aymara jaqi) or is it a prescribed generic, like English
man/mankind?

Ron