In a previous article we published on this site, titled “The Fourteenth Tribe”, we mentioned that the Libyan linguist Ibn Manzūr, in his celebrated Arabic lexicon, Lisān al-‘Arab, matter-of-factly referred to the Rūm as “a well-known human stock; the singular is called Rūmī. Their lineage is ultimately traced back to ‘Īsū, a son of Prophet Ishāq, peace upon him”. The works[Read More…]