The 'Negro' in Arab Muslim Consciousness by Author:Abdullah Ali

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The 'Negro' in Arab Muslim Consciousness by Author:Abdullah Ali Author:Abdullah AliBinding:soft coverPages:294Size cm:15x22Publisher:Claritas Book The 'Negro' in Arab Muslim Consciousnes What is the ‘negro’? Who qualifies? What is its Arabic equivalent? And, what did pre-modern writers mean by it? There is a common belief that the ‘negro’ refers to...

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The 'Negro' in Arab Muslim Consciousness by Author:Abdullah Ali

Author:Abdullah Ali
Binding:soft cover
Pages:294
Size cm:15x22
Publisher:Claritas Book

The 'Negro' in Arab Muslim Consciousnes

What is the ‘negro’? Who qualifies? What is its Arabic equivalent? And, what did pre-modern writers mean by it? There is a common belief that the ‘negro’ refers to any “black” person of sub-Saharan African heritage. Historians, however, often differentiate between the Moor, the Nubian, the Ethiopian, the Kushite, and the Negro. Why this distinction if all “black” Africans and those of African heritage presumably belong to a common pedigree? This book’s author, Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali, argues that the ‘Negro’ or ‘Zanj’ as perceived by premodern Arab historians, theologians, and jurists was not only a geographical population. It was also one perceived to be culturally inferior to all other known ‘races.’ For Arab climatic theorists like Al-Mas’udi and Ibn Khaldun, this phenomenon could easily be explained by the fact that the ‘Negroes’ (al-Zunuj) lived at the extreme southern regions of the Earth which brought with it a lack of industriousness and urbanisation (‘umran) similar to what one might find as he/she travels closer to civilisation’s center, the Mediterranean. A particular aim of this work is to underscore how racial conceptions and perceptions can and have influenced aesthetic standa