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Greetings,
We got your reply to our first report and wanted to send you another one.
We are sorry if the tone of the report seemed rude. We have no idea about how much information our clients posess, and so we make a point to be as detailed as possible. Given that, we want to address the specific points you brought up.
The Academy was founded specifically for the purpose of helping people who are looking for historical information about their names and personas. Thus, when we said that "the idea of a crusader bringing home his Muslim bride and bastard child is historically unlikely to the point of being virtually impossible," we were reporting our assessment of the historical data, not critiquing your persona story.
There is an Arabic form of <Peter>: <Butrus>. There was a 13th century author <Butrus ibn al-Mahadhdhib>, also called <Ibn al-Rahib> [1]. The name is still used in Arabic [2], and we think it's likely that it was used well before the 13th century, primarily by Arab Christians.
Arval Benicouer, Sion Andreas, and Da'ud ibn Auda contributed to this letter.
We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you.
In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of S. Gabriel
[1] _Petrus ibn Rahib: Chronicon orientale_, Edidit [et interpretationem olim ab Abrahamo Echellensi institutam tum a I. S. Assemano revisam iterum ad fidem Arabici textus recognovit] L. Cheikho. Beryti, E Typographeo catholico, 1903.
[2] M.A. Qazi, "What's In a Muslim Name", p. 37.