The Zanjī
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Zanjī · al-Zanjī · الزنجي · زنجي
spoken of as
1 expressionZanjī1 mention
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic)
But if we were to say (ʻUmar is a Zanjī), then this saying of ours comprises two single conceptions, one of them ʻUmar and the other Zanjī;
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The Zanjī, an East African population named as one of the colours and classes under the species man in the hierarchy of excellence.
And likewise under the species man there are classes and colours, such as the Zanjī, the Hindī, the Rūmī and others;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
An ethnic designation used as the predicate conception in the specimen proposition about ʻUmar
But if we were to say (ʻUmar is a Zanjī), then this saying of ours comprises two single conceptions, one of them ʻUmar and the other Zanjī;