Zuagirs = ?

[Char-Vell]

So the Zuagirs plagued the Turanians, Who were the real world equivalents the plagued the Ottomans?

Tuaregs maybe?

Asking for a friend.

[wulfhere]

I would say they were analogous to Arab tribes.

[deuce]

Jul 26, 2018 17:50:03 GMT -5 wulfhere said:

I would say they were analogous to Arab tribes.

Right with you on that, Wulfhere. 

"Many tribes of Shem escaped [Hyrkanian] captivity, and from pure-blooded Shemites, or Shemites mixed with Hyborian or Nordic blood, were descended the Arabs, Israelites, and other straighter-featured Semites."  -- REH

Bedouins and other Arabs caused trouble for the Ottomans for centuries, right up through World War I. Howard owned an edition of Lawrence's Revolt In the Desert (as do I).


www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20130802


Lawrence paints a positive, exciting picture of Bedouin nomad life (including many fights against the Ottomans) and the book very likely influenced REH, as did Seabrook's Adventures in Arabia.


www.amazon.com/Adventures-Arabia-Bedouins-Dervisches-Worshipers/dp/1557783675

[keith]

I'd say yes. The Zuagirs were REH's prehistoric version of the Arab Bedouin, though the name itself looks as if it was inspired by Tuaregs. And they harassed the Turanian Empire just as actual Bedouin harassed the Ottomans. REH's Turanians are pseudo-Ottomans even though the proper names are more often borrowed from Sassanid Persia, such as Yezdigerd and Shah Amurath … at least I think the latter is Persian, not Turkish. Ghaznavi, in "The Devil In Iron", has a Turkish sound, but Ghaznavi's master Jehangir, in the same story, again has a Persian name. Jehangir was the imperial name of a Mughal overlord, in our history, and it is Persian for "world conqueror."

[Von K]

The Zuagirs likely harried impartially all the desert trade routes south of the Zaporoska:

I was a chief of the Zuagirs once – desert men who live by plundering the caravans.

Conan – Red Nails

[headlessvulture]

My guess would be Bedouins.

[kemp]

Arab nomads of the desert, analogous to bedouins on horseback.