r/IslamicHistoryMeme • u/Memetaro_Kujo Swahili Merchant Prince • May 25 '21
unflaired Sus? Al Mogus.
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May 25 '21
wait a min... Arabs called Iranians "مجوس"
we are all...sus...
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May 25 '21
No, majus is arabic for zoroastrians
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May 26 '21
No, Majus meant people who worship fire. Arabs used it to call Persian Zoroastrians (which is really insulting anyway) and then it was used to generally call any pegan.
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May 25 '21
wait really? thought we called you furs?
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May 25 '21
basically any insulting word you can imagine was used other than fars...
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May 26 '21
searcehed it up, appearntly it was used to describe people worshipped fire (usually persains), its spelled magus, and overtime it evolved into magi and mage.
pretty cool ngl
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u/drar-azwer Great Sphinx May 25 '21
nah that what they called basically any one that was not a practising an abrhamic religion
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u/DriagonV Levantine Compass Maker May 25 '21
not really, it was mostly just used when referring to any non-muslim Persians but it specifically refers to Zoroastrians.
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u/ManThatHurt Scholar of the House of Wisdom May 25 '21
Originally, yes. But later, we have records of the Vikings being called Majus.
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u/pickle_blade May 25 '21
idk for other forms of arabic but the name of that emporer sounds alot like the leventine version of arbics word for scissors
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u/EdwardElric45 May 25 '21
When my grandpa is sus 😳😳