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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Arabian royals vs. European Royals
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 19:38:50 -0500


(Nathaniel Taylor) wrote:
>
> In article <01bcfc57$687e6740$>, "Frank H. Johansen"
> <> wrote:
>
> Actually, these lines from Christian Iberian nobility to Mohammad (for
> example those through the fictitious 'Mudarra de Lara', or through Zaida,
> concubine and [possibly] queen of Castilian King Alfonso VI) have little
> or no validity. The various lines were examined in a lengthy study by
> Prof. Khalid Blankinship of Temple Univ., whose publication (in _The
> Genelaogist_) has unfortunately been delayed. The lengthy literature on
> Zaida is also reviewed briefly in a footnote in an article by Todd
> Farmerie and me forthcoming in the NEHGRegister.

Just to amplify on this comment, Blankinship addresses the descent of
each of the claimed muslim brides or mistresses from Muhammed, and finds
them groundless. To give an idea of the nature of these, I am preparing
a manuscript in which I address each of the descents which lead from
these supposed marriages down to "gateway" ancestors, and in turn find
each of them groundless (except perhaps for the link between the Kings
of Sicily and Zaida). They amply represent the excesses to which one
can be driven by the desire for such descents.

ta

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