More Things In Heaven And Earth Dept.

[muckefuck]

Magyarabs. Nubians who claim descent from a Hungarian general fighting for the Ottomans.

ETA: But, of course, the WEIRDest population group in the world is all around me.

Comments

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but I find this fascinating!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? I live for crazy shit like this!

Too bad they lost their Magyar. I would be really curious to see what it would look like after five centuries of Arabic influence!

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I find it somewhat unlikely that -- especially as they're set apart from others around them -- that there aren't SOME sort of Magyar "artifacts" here and there in their speech. Oh well ;_;

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. Better than the Black Jews of Ethiopia. So totally going in my Bollymecha game.

[gullinbursti.livejournal.com]

Interesting.. only one single hit in JSTOR (and that's just one passing mention in one article) and none in EBSCO Megafile. I can't believe there's that little research about them.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Looks like what little there is is primarily in Hungarian, so you wouldn't expect it to show up in those aggregators, would you?

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

So we need the Last Son of the Elephantine Island Jews to marry the Magyarab Princess, so that their child can Open the Way to Zerzura.

Note the significant Almasy connection, too.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. Pirates of the Caribbean: the price of freedom is an abomination in so, so many ways. I know it's not your fault that wikilinkage took me there, it just happens to trample Zerzura in passing during its wild, indiscriminate gavotte all over the license, the characters, the history, the ocean and the Indies.

Doesn't Jewish heritage pass through the mother? I think I like the idea of a female marriage quest through highland Nubia.

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

That WEIRD article is absolutely fascinating.