SC - Persona Help (OT)

[A.J. Phillips]

For names go to the Academy of St. Gabriel's page:
  Excerpt of letter sent to me: "In much of northern Africa, including 
Egypt, North Africa, Ghana, Mali,
Songhai, and Zanzibar, the elite classes were Muslim from the Middle Ages
onward.  In all Muslim communities, Arabic names were common, though other
names may also have been used.  If there is a particular African culture
that interests you, we can try to find more information about it; but we
don't currently have any reliable information about names in most medieval
African cultures.  However, we do believe that an Arabic name would be
appropriate in any culture that adopted Islam.

We have some information about period Arabic names available on the web,
including lists of women's and men's first names.  You can find it in our
medieval names website

  http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/

When they were identified beyond their given names, Muslim women in our
period were generally known either as their father's daughters or as their
son's mothers, e.g. <Maryam bint Hassan> "Maryam daughter of Hassan", <Umm
Rashid Maryam> "Rashid's mother Maryam"."





"Of all the trails in this world, there is one that matters most...the trail 
of a TRUE enlightened soul!"
Bright Blessings,
Amy
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