Basil Dragonstrike

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Basil

I, Basil Dragonstrike, first found the SCA in 1979, and was attracted to it because of his already existant interest in heraldry. Heraldry remains my may activity to this day.

Orignally, I could not settle on a place & time for a "persona." However, a few years back I read John Julius Norwich's Normans in the South books, and started concentrating on 11th and 12th century CE Sicily. However, the more I reasearched, the less interested in the Normans and other "Faranj" I became, and the more interested in the Muslims I became. Eventually, I decided a 10th century CE Muslim with connections to Sicily and al-Andalus was where and when I wanted to base my "persona" on.

Obviously, in that case the name "Basil Dragonstrike" would not do. I submitted and passed an Arabic name that used "Bāsil" and contained a number of other elements. However, upon consideration, I decided that if I was going to play a character, I wanted to get away from "Basil"---after all, "Basil Dragonstrike" is fairly well known among heralds, and people of my branch (Porte de l'Eau/Madrone). So, I'm keeping "Basil Dragonstrke" for out-of-character stuff, and introducing Mālik ibn Ḳārin ibn al-Māridī ibn Djinnī al-Ābdarī al-Shaybānī as a mostly in-character "persona". Note that so far I've registered Mālik ibn Djinnī al-Shaybānī

I've been researching Islamdom and Muslim culture, particularly of the 9th - 11th centuries CE. I've written a number of articles on Arabic names (index of all articles), and plan to expand to articles on the culture of Mālik's time, though I'm not sure where to put those online; I may have to start a blog or some such thing.

Mālik ibn Djinni