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Moor from Mauri

I frankly don't understand why this article is separated from the one for Mauri, since the word Moor is originally from Mauri, which was used by Romans, and by the native Mauri (inhabitants of the Kingdom of Mauretania and the Roman provinces that ensued from them) to designate themselves, indicating as Gabriel Camps suggests that it may be originally a Berber word that went into Greek then Latin. The claim of the first paragraph of the article that it was an "exonym" in that sense, is not accurate, and much less is the claim that it was an equivalent of Muslim. The term was and remained much more strongly associated with Northwest Africa and its proxy regions (e.g. Andalusia) than any other place, and a cursory search in the literature is sufficient indication, that it was mainly a geographical term that was sometimes abused and generalized, but most often retained its original significance (check the number of hits for "Moorish Morocco" vs "Moorish Egypt" or any other region, on Google Books or Google Scholar for instance). --Ideophagous (talk) 10:23, 03 April 2021 (UTC+2)

Who was moors

Who was moors 58.181.103.85 (talk) 11:14, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I was moors bro 82.19.231.27 (talk) 17:23, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Any reason dark skinned moors are not mentioned or depicted?

Considering the prevalence of dark-skinned Moors in European art and the historical use of the term to describe individuals with dark complexions, why are there no depictions of dark-skinned Moors? It seems like a significant omission in their history, don't you agree? Araptesot (talk) 18:58, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Because it's an afrocentrist POV that we are duty-bound to disregard as pseudo-historical woo? SinoDevonian (talk) 11:36, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Eurocentric is just as bad and racist because it’s harmful to the knowledge of African history and the straight up denial over pretty much black history in general. I still remember people saying Masa Mufa was white or kingdoms in sub Sahara Africa were ruled by whites or Muslims. I don’t like Afrocentric but Eurocentric is cancer 2601:8C:B80:6660:DA9:9CD8:D4A7:B44B (talk) 03:13, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
I think any discussion here should be based on the fact that there is no such thing as a moor - at least not one well-defined group that is properly designated that way. Hence, this is an article about a word, and who it has been applied to, and how, and by whom. Eurocentrism is a significant part of the word, and of course should be exposed. (talk) 08:29, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
Nø is correct. Carlstak (talk) 11:44, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
THAT being said, I think it is true that the term "moor", in addition to (or besides?) identifying someone as muslim, also may identify them as black; e.g., Shakespeare's Othello (mentioned in the popular culture section) is genreally seens as black, and traditionally was played by a white actor in blackface. Also, a google image search on "moor" will (when it comes to pictures of people) mostly bring up paintings of black people. I do not have knowledge, sources or time to include this properly in the article, but it is odd that such depictiions are currently absent. (talk) 12:46, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
The depictions are absent because they are old European nonsense. The moors (predominantly Berbers and Arabs) were neither white nor black. M.Bitton (talk) 12:54, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
The word Moor is (mostly) old European nonsense. We should descirbe and expose this nonsense; it is the subject of this article. If a high school students comes across a painting of a black person called "A Moor", or comes across the character Othello, and wants to know what that is about, this article should provide an answer. Otherwise, what is this article about? (talk) 13:05, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
The word Moor is not nonsense. As the lead sentence says: it's an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages (the designated Muslim populations are what the article is about). M.Bitton (talk) 13:09, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

In popular culture

I have (for now) deleted this item:

I'm not sure how to rewrite it in an appropriate way. We should not propagate the identification of anyone as "a moor". (talk) 12:38, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

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