Pocock, Specimen, p.
33, 35.Asseman.Bibliot.Orient.tom.

iv.p.

567.) Yet the last and most popular of these etymologies is refuted by Ptolemy, (Arabia, p.

2, 18, in Hudson, tom.

iv.,) who expressly remarks the western and southern position of the Saracens, then an obscure tribe on the borders of Egypt.
The appellation cannot therefore allude to any national character; and, since it was imposed by strangers, it must be found, not in the Arabic, but in a foreign language.