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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Whatbox: [QB] I know of at least two Moorish Dynasties (including the alMoravids) with origins in the West African Sahel, i know maur's original meaning was black (hence the darkest later classification for the Muslim invaders was 'black-a-Moor' literally "black as a Moor"). I've seen plenty of artwork and writing on the Moors in Europe conforming to the idea of a lot of dark skinned black looking people. Were there brown skinned and lighter toned swarthy individuals in the Empire? Of course, they even termed those who seemed near Eastern as "saracens" aka "Eastern people". A professor of mine happened to discuss them and the Reconquista, "invaders, [i]brown[i] people, from [i]AFRICA[i]" as phrased it and no second thought was given to this. I missed an extra points question from a sub one morning too, and felt dumb afterwords but hadn't noticed the similarity between maur and what i knew moor (but am not sure that i then actually knew the word meant black). The question was a food i think called blank&maurs "white and blacks or something to do with black and a food item. Edit: I just wrote the above before even reading the last - lamin's - post. So there you have it from like two different posters. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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