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Encyclopedia Britannica



SARACENS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 203 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SARACENS , the current designation among the Christians in the middle ages for their Moslem enemies, especially for the Moslems in Europe. In earlier times the name Saraceni was applied by Greeks and Romans to the
nomad
 
Arabs
  of the Syro-Arabian
desert
  who harassed the frontier of the
empire
 . lapaivrl, a
district
  in the Sinaitic peninsula, is mentioned by
Ptolemy
  (v. 16). Its inhabitants, though unknown to Arab tradition, made themselves notorious in the adjacent Roman provinces. Thus all Bedouins in that region came to be called Saraceni, in Aramaic Sarkaje, usually with no very favourable meaning. The latter form occurs in a dialogue concerning Fate written about A.D. 210 by a pupil of Bardesanes (Cureton, Spicilegium Syria-cum, 16 ult.). The appellation then became general, and occurs frequently in Ammianus
Marcellinus
 . The name " Saracen " continued to be used in the West in later times, probably rather through the
influence
  of literature than by oral tradition, and was applied to all
Arabs
 , even to all Moslems.


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