[Ansteorra-MiddleEastern] Re: use of vizier/viziera

[Keener, Susan R]

Grand Poo-bah of the Guild
High Muckety-Muck

;-)

Sahirah, feeling punchy and having an image of the Vizier in Disney's Aladdin twirling his mustache suggestively

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandra Jakl [mailto:sjakl at pegasus-international.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:22 PM
> To: Ansteorran Middle Eastern Community
> Subject: RE: [Ansteorra-MiddleEastern] Re: use of vizier/viziera
> 
> 
> No reason, trying to give it some flair... Guild head it is.
> 
> Sandra Jakl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keener, Susan R [mailto:Susan.R.Keener at boeing.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: Ansteorra-Middleeastern (E-mail)
> Subject: [Ansteorra-MiddleEastern] Re: use of vizier/viziera
> 
> There were some good points, I thought, in response to 
> Clara's question
> about the use of Vizier/Viziera over on the 
> SCA-MidEastMusicCulture group.
> Vizier was the term for a government civil-servant position, 
> basically a
> prime minister. This sounds to me like it would be more like 
> a seneschal
> position (?), than what would be appropriate for a Guild 
> head. It would be
> cool to find out a period Middle Eastern term for the guild 
> head, but until
> we can find that, why not just use "Guild Head"?
> http://i-cias.com/e.o/vizier.htm
> 
> Sahirah
>