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Africanism : Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary

Kadhem, Nader [Verfasser] ; Al-Azraki, Amir

1st ed.

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)

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978-0-228-01966-4 ; 978-0-228-01872-8

Investigating the history of anti-Black racism in several canonical texts of Arabic culture, Africanism explores how Black people are perceived, imagined, and represented in the Arab imaginary from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century in works of religion, literature, and history.