Ibn Khaldun Badly mistranslated Arabic sources. How I first came to that conclusion

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markellion
May 31, 2009

*How I came to the conclusion a few months ago about how many Arabic translations about black people were horribly tainted with racism* I told someone I was going to upload a video on this its kin...

*How I came to the conclusion a few months ago about how many Arabic translations about black people were horribly tainted with racism*

I told someone I was going to upload a video on this its kind of lame but I'll be on again next Sunday

Islam's Black Slaves By Ronald Segal
Black slaves in Iran according to Lady Mary Eleanor:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fdh3...

"They are highly esteemed as being mild, faithful and intelligent, and are generally confidential servants in Persian households. Ill-treatment of course sometimes take place when there is unlimited power on one hand, and entire submission on the other. The fact is proved by the occasional instances in which slaves have taken refuge in the [British] Mission to escape from punishment by their masters. Still it is believed that in general, cruelly, or even harshness, is rarely practiced towards slaves in Persia. Their customary treatment to that of the other servants of a family, or even something better, particularly when they happen to be Nubes [Nubians[ or Habeshees [Ethiopians]. They are never employed as field laborers, their occupations being confined to the duties of the household."

The myth of continents

http://books.google.com/books?id=C2as...

Ashanti cites Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Battuta as having uniquely African sensibilities, part of a pan-African heritage. The author of the book gives quotes showing Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun to be racists, thats how I became skeptical about translations. How could Pan Africanists consider Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun part of the African heritage of those two writers were racist? Click on the above link to see what I mean

Negro land of the Arabs

Ibn Khaldun

You'll read other translations say that Ibn Khaldun said architecture was introduced to Mali because they had none before

http://books.google.com/books?id=380N...

"Abu Ishak showed him a model, and erected the edifice, with plaster and all kinds of ornaments, for which he received 12,000 mithkals of gold. Mansa Musa maintained an intimate and friendly correspondence with Sultan Abu-l-Hasan, of Al-Maghreb, and reigned twenty-five years."

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