Zanj

[FN#130] "Zanj," I have said, is the Arab. form of the Persian

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

“Zanj,” I have said, is the Arab. form of the Persian

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Al – Wardi and Al – Kazwini notice them in the Isle Saksar, in the Sea of the Zanj (Zanzibar): the name is corrupted Persian

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

These contacts are exemplified by Arab geographer al-Idrisi's description of the known world (1154), which divided the Swahili coast into the land of Zanj, in the north, and the land of Sofala, in the south.

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The Zanj, slaves of East African origin employed to reclaim salinated farmlands, rose in a great rebellion that laid waste to much of lower Iraq and put a strain on Abbasid resources.

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After the Zanj rebellion, slavery persisted in urban and village settings in the Islamic world, for the Qur'an allowed slavery but enjoined the kind treatment of slaves and defined their manumission as a blessing.

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Who Zanj [FN#130] and Habash bound beneath his yoke, * And Nubia curbed and low its puissance laid.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Locks of the Zanj [FN#13] and golden glint of hair; * Sweet gait and form a spear to have and hold:

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

[FN#86] The fable is from Al-Kazwini and Ibn Al-Wardi who place the serpent (an animal sacred to Æsculapius, Pliny, xxix. 4) "in the sea of Zanj" (i.e. Zanzibar).

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Myth of Arab cultural domination of "Negroes" part 1 introduction to the land of Zanj

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