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P132

Ibn al- Athir (2): And the skin of the dead is not touched. The skin of the (dead) giraffe is described as strong and smooth. 

This does not affect it (the prohibition to use it).

 

P321

…. of men: the heavy black, which is the Beshla. Ibn al - Arabi: If a man dances, he dances the dance of the al Zinj.(20)

 

P848

And the servants of the people of Hijaz (3), they are Zanjy (Negroes) and Habashis and others who are equal or close to.

 

P873

A man is said to be a fool if he is an ignorant person who does not clean his house,

If only the cat is rolled up like the hair of the zanj and the Nubia, then he is guilty.

 

P1842

Daghawa (4): a kind of Sudan from among the Zinj from an island in the Sea; they are known as the Zaghawa (5), Bialzay (6), a race of the Sudan.

 

P1860

D.k.r: a game played by Zinj and Habash.

 

P2401

The giraffe:

A well-created animal from the Abyssinian country.  And if it is bought the al zrafta,or al zarafa, walzarafftu, 

it is said in Farsi (7) ushtur kaw-balank (19) was said: walzzrraf, walzzaraftu:Farazdak (8) said: (lives) in dry areas.

 

P2405

…. they are a race from the Sudan and the Indians, and one is zutt, such as zinj, zanji, rum and rumi;

 

P2453

Zing: Zinc and zinc, two pronunciations:   A generation of Sudan are al-zunuju, and zinji  and wazanjiun;

Ibn al-Skeit and Abu Ubayd (21): such as Rumi, Rumi, Farsi (7), and Persia,…. alzinj, bizanjl, al'zanuj

 

P2454

It is said in the appeal: O zanaji, ll-zinjii….

Zanajib; Abu Amr: The Zinj from the Zanzibar Region. The zinger is a garment worn by a woman …..

 

Ginger

Ginger: What grows in the land of the Arabs in the land of Oman, a vein that is planted in the land, and plant similar to plants and it is not the fruit of the earth, and not of the wild, and not the trees, eaten wet and eaten hard, and used dry, and the quality is what which is brought from the Zinj and China, and claimed that the people called it Zanjabila;

 

P3528

This is the view of Sbeih ibn al-Zinjy,… when he was angry for what Jarir said to Farazdak (9)

Do not ask a responsible to prevail

over them Walzinj my brother

And he said, Speak in the wind, when he heard this house (familie),

Al Zinj you had to meet them in their ranks

I did, (and saw), jostling heroes (this you also find in Al-Jahiz- Sudan (869)).

 

P4469

It is a cracked lip and it is massive and relaxed as it affects the lips of the al Zinji;

 

P4805

Hair extension:

Curly as the hair of al Zanj, it was said:

And the hair, which does not lengthen and is only because the hardness of the head.

 

P5480

People are differed in this house and said:

This is an al Zanj and here is fat in her thighs;

Ibn Mansoor: Mukhtasir tarikh dimashqi  (Short History of Damascus) (d1311)

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Taken from:  alwaraq.net

 

P28

Ibn Abbas said: The Messenger of Allah peace be upon him said: Mecca; the verse of honor, and Medina torque of religion,

Kufa (10), tent of Islam, and Basra pride of Abidin (11), and the Levant, gem of the righteous, and Egypt nest of the devil and his cave, and stable, and Sindh, the ink and the adulterer in Zinj , and the honesty in Nubia, and Bahrain, home of Mubarak (12), and Al Jazeera (13) gem of killings, and the people of Yemen with hearts gentle,… and the imams of the Quraysh (14), and masters of the people of Banu Hashim (15).

 

P2331

Abu Hassan died in Baghdad in the year 477 AH and was of the people of Miurqp.

 He had installed himself in the land of Zinj, where he was investigating their manners, then he came back to Basra to reside in,

and when he arrived in Basra he mounted again the camel, and he died seventy-four years old.

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Ibn Manzur: Surur al-Nafs (The Pleasure of Using the Five Senses)

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Taken from: alwaraq.net

P6

Maturity, amongst the people Zinj where the womb permits only limited maturation because the heat leads to being overburned....

 

P62

Consideration of the South Pole and Sohail together … this shows that this pole and this planet have the capacity to create

musical pleasure in people, so as they are very close together in Zinj they are indeed very musical.

 

P127

October: fighting deadly turf wars Zinj, India, Babylon and the king kills his enemies, and the year will be good, and a lot of

planting the land on farms, and a lot of rain.

 

Saturn: reflects on, India, Zinj and the Copts, Ethiopia and the Sudan between the south and Maghreb and Yemen, Arab

and the Nabati (16).

 

Taken from: Der Neger in der Bildersprache der arabischen Dichter By Manfred Ullmann

 

P65

(citing Abul abbas Ahmad ibn Yusuf at Tifasi) (17)

Can't you see the beginning of the month when the crescent moon appears while the shadows of the night darkness fall? The darkness in combination with the crescent moon is, so to speak, an old man from the Zanj, whose eyebrows are greyed out.

 

P384

(citing Saraf ad din Abul Abbas Ahmad ibn Yusuf at Tifasi) (17)

After the night settled down with all its heaviness, the candle appeared. Then the night that was was being chased away. With an army of zanj, she waged an attack. Then the candle held out a lance tip that blocked her way.

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Ibn Mansur: Nithar al-azhar (Exciting Flowers)

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Taken from: maktabatalarab.com

 

P80

Among the black people like the Zinj, because they live in a hot country. The heat overcooks them in the womb and curls

their hair. This makes that the mind is dull for the Sudan. 

 

P127

this star (Suheil) is characteristic for events of joy and happiness in the people and for the lowness of the al zanj who are

close to Suheil what makes them to be full of joy.

 

P134

Saturn influences the land of Sindh and India and Zinj and Abyssinia and the Copts and south between Sudan and

Maghreb, and Yemen and Maghreb.

 

P271

In the month of Shawwal: problems in al Zanj and India, and the King in Babel kills his enemies, and good a generally

good year, and a good year for the farmers, and the rain increases.