[ANSTHRLD] Re: Ibrahim al-Khatib

[doug bell]

Ibrahim al-Khatib looks OK on first glance.  Now
that I actually feel well enough to get up and around I
will look at The Fihirst of al-Nadim and the other
Arabic sources and see what is said.

It looks like a given name and a descriptive.
al-Rashid 'the rightly guided' is another example
of such a byname.
Locatives are also formed that way as
al-Baghdadi - from Baghdad.

Magnus

who spent enough time fighting them in the Crusades
to know what they were called




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