Masoud
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Masoud was an infamous slave belonging to the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. He was a large black man used by Hakim to carry out a bizarre punishment. Hakim was said to have occasionally wandered the streets of Cairo looking for deceptive merchants. When he discovered one, he would immediately have Masoud publicly sodomize the man.
This tradition has inspired a phrase which has survived into modern times, in which citizens of Cairo threaten to "bring Masoud" to another person.
[edit] Sources
Desmond Stewart, Great Cairo: Mother of the World (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1981, 73-74
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