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SARACENS , the current designation among the Christians in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle ages for their Moslem enemies, especially for the Moslems in See also:

EUROPE

Europe. In earlier times the name Saraceni was applied by Greeks and See also:

Romans to the See also:

NOMAD (Gr. voµas, voµabes, wandering)

nomad See also:

ARABS

Arabs of the Syro-Arabian See also:

DESERT

desert who harassed the frontier of the See also:

EMPIRE

empire. lapaivrl, a See also:

DISTRICT

district in the Sinaitic See also:

peninsula, is mentioned by See also:

PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy (v. 16). Its inhabitants, though unknown to Arab tradition, made themselves notorious in the adjacent See also:

ROMAN

Roman provinces. Thus all See also:

BEDOUINS (Ahl Bedu, " dwellers in the open land," or Ahl el beit, " people of the tent," as they call themselves)

Bedouins in that region came to be called Saraceni, in Aramaic Sarkaje, usually with no very favourable meaning. The latter See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form occurs in a See also:

DIALOGUE

dialogue concerning See also:

FATE

Fate written about A.D. 210 by a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Bardesanes (See also:

CURETON, WILLIAM (1808-1864)

Cureton, Spicilegium See also:

SYRIA

Syria-cum, 16 ult.). The appellation then became See also:

general, and occurs frequently in See also:

AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUS

Ammianus See also:

MARCELLINUS, ST

Marcellinus. The name " Saracen " continued to be used in the See also:

West in later times, probably rather through the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of literature than by oral tradition, and was applied to all Arabs, even to all Moslems.

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