For Allah created the English mad- the maddest of all mankind!
-Rudyard Kipling, Kitchener’s School, A poem about Gordon Memorial College, now the University of Khartoum
Majnūn, Insane, from the triliteral root J-N-N. Literally, Genied. Possessed by Jinns. Mad Dogs, Red Faced, Unbuttoned. I don’t know what some of the drovers thought about us, the Khawajas who rode with them. Most knew we were Amrīkān but some no doubt thought we were Ingilīz, because we spoke Ingilīzi. But they all must have thought us Majnūn because we told them we were riding the Darb to improve our Mazāj, our Mood.