Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry by Bernard Lewis

Author:Bernard Lewis [Lewis, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Education & Reference, History, Middle East, World, Slavery & Emancipation, Medical Books, Medicine, Internal Medicine, Cardiology
ISBN: 9780195053265
Amazon: B0036TGM0E
Barnesnoble: B0036TGM0E
Goodreads: 178663
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

Ibrahim was a prince and a scholar. and his mother. though it concubine, was born a Persian lady or princess. Others were less fortunate: and many stories are told of people with an African mother or grandmother and with a dark complexion, who were subject to insult and humiliation on this account." A vivid example occurs in a satire ascribed, probably falsely, to Hassan ibn Thabit:

Whiteness was seen as a mark of superior birth. Thus the eleventh-century Tunisian poet Ibn Rashiq, in an ode in praise of the city of Qayrawan, boasts of the nobility of its inhabitants:

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