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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] Doug - I think you are correct that America needed to redefine what "a Moor" was, although early Moors coming to America were also described as blacks and dark brown. But, also there were certainly depictions of Muslims that were fair-skinned particularly after the 13th century in Britain especially. A "Moor" became any person particularly from Morocco and then of North Africa in general. Thus, the British and some French painters from after the 13th but before the 20th century often painted women from N. African harems as calling them "Moorish" women, etc. Nevertheless - the word Moor Moro is used synonomously for "Negro" by both Christian Spaniards and the English or British before the 14th century and unlike later periods, the term then included for people of all faiths. One note just to put things in context - the Central Asian people in the first picture of your post (first posted by someone else) had nothing to do with "the Arabs" or "Moors" of Spain and the black people represented therein could be anyone from Indian to Arab to African. The name of such Turkoman Muslims who entered Iran and Turkey escapes me at the moment but there is a name for them and the period they belong to. I know it wasn't the Mameluks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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