Les combats (3)

Zouache, Abbès

doi:10.4000/books.ifpo.393

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“…Moreover, even if Muslim armies-particularly the Fatimid one-included some multiethnic elite and professionalized regiments, in general they are described in the sources as organized in an ethnic way. 11 The problem is that when we want to recognize the ethnic groups, we face the inaccuracy of the sources. Thus, Arab authors use ethnonyms like Arab as well as geographical words like Ḫurāsānī, this latter term theoretically referring to all soldiers from Ḫurāsān.…”

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Remarks on the Blacks in the Fatimid Army, Tenth–Twelfth Century CE

Zouache¹

2019

Northeast African Studies

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In this article, I revisit some aspects of the organization of the Fatimid army, and more specifically to the role played by its black contingents, who are still often considered the most faithful supporters of the dynasty. Wherever they came from and regardless of their social and legal status, black soldiers, whose Egyptian-ness was indisputable, were major players in the history of the Fatimid Caliphate. Medieval authors, who sometimes conveyed negative representations linked with racial bias, and who are not necessarily accurate in dealing with other races, even acknowledged this role.

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Section: Ethnicity Of Medieval Muslim Armies: the Inaccuracy Of The Smentioning

confidence: 99%