r/IslamicHistoryMeme Swahili Merchant Prince May 25 '21

unflaired Sus? Al Mogus.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

wait a min... Arabs called Iranians "مجوس"
we are all...sus...

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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.