Al-Bakri

Al-Bakrī (c. 1040 – 1094) was an Arab Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Medieval Maghreb (including Al-Andalus). Quotes [In Awdaghast there are] pretty slave girls with white complexions, good figures, firm breasts, slim waists, fat buttocks, wide shoulders and sexual organs so narrow that one of them may be enjoyed as though she were a virgin indefinitely. [A merchant of Awdaghast said] that he saw one of these women reclining on her side...and her child, an infant, played with her, passing under her waist from side to side without her having to draw away from him at all on account of the ampleness of the lower part of her body and the gracefulness of her waist. N. Levtzion and J. F. P. Hopkins, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History (Cambridge, 1981), p. 68. Cited in Humphrey J. Fisher, Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa (London: Hurst & Co., 2001), p. 181. See also the Darab-nama in Minoo Southgate, "The Negative Images of Blacks in Some Medieval Iranian Writings", Iranian Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (1984), p. 13 In the year 1054–5 'Abd Allah b. Yasin invaded the town of Awdaghust, a flourishing locality, and a large town containing markets, numerous palms and henna trees. ... This town used to be the residence of the King of the Sudan who was called Ghana before the Arabs entered (the city of) Ghana... This (former) city was inhabited by Zenata together with Arabs who were always at loggerheads with each other. ... The Almoravids violated its women and declared everything that they took there to be booty of the community. ... The Almoravids persecuted the people of Awdaghust only because they recognized the authority of the ruler of Ghana. Levtzion and Hopkins, Corpus (1981), pp. 73–74 External links Category:Arabs Category:Historians Category:Geographers