Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māridī ibn Jinnī al-ʻAbdārī al-Shaybānī

This is my current name. My former name, Basil Dragonstrike, is now an alternate name. I will do more with this page eventually.

Born in the 3rd month of the year 231 of the Hijra in Balarm, the principal city of Sikilliya, Mālik ibn Jinni al-Shaybānī has travelled widely, both by sea and by land. Now, in mid-302, at 71 years old, he is travelling towards al-Andalus, though he hasn't settled on Qurṭuba, Ishbīliya, Ḳādis, or somewhere else However, he avoids travel on the sea, declaring he's had enough of that.

He knows a good bit about "the Faranj" due to working in a trade-related job in Balarm in his youth, but his "knowledge" is not without a few errors, and a few stereotypes. He also has extensive if somewhat spotty knowledge of India and China, and Central Asia. But he's usually quiet, and rarely tells tales---and some of them are not about what he's seen/done himself.

(Please note: Mālik is pronounced with the "a" as in "father," the "i" as in "pit," and the accent on the first syllable. IOW, "Maalik")