moors

References 1. Frost, P. (1990). Fair women, dark men: the forgotten roots of colour prejudice. History of European Ideas, 12, 669-679.
2. Bernhard Blumenkranz, Le Juif médiéval au miroir de l'art chrétien (Paris, 1966), p.21
3. al-Jahiz, The Boast of the Blacks against the Whites, quoted in Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople, vol 2, ed. by Bernard Lewis
4. Lewis, Bernard, Race and Slavery in the Middle East, 1990, p. 26, 50.
5. Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, tr. Franz Rosenthal (New York: Pantheon Books, 1958) "Third Prefatory Discussion" p.167-168.
6. ibid., p. 171.
7. Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, tr. and ed. H. A. R. Gibb (London: Broadway House, 1929) p 317-323. Actually Gibb translates the Arabic Sudan as "Negroes"; Cuoq (see below) translates it literally as "Blacks."
8. Ibn Battuta, quoted in Norris, H. T., The Berbers in Arabic Literature, Librairie du Liban, 1982. pp. 191-2
9. al-Umari, Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar (source: J. M. Cuoq, Recueil des sources arabes concernant l'Afrique occidentale du VIIIe au XVIe siècle, 1975, p.264; also see p. 374; French-to-English translation is mine)
10. ibid., p. 284
11. Chanson de Roland, verse CXLIII (translation: Charles Moncrief)

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[KRock2000]

great video.....to bad it doesn't compare with the overwhelming evidence that the moors were black africans.

[braahp360]

"great video.....to bad it doesn't compare with the overwhelming evidence that the moors were black africans."

With the exception that these images were created by the people they are depicting. If Jesus drew a picture of himself as a Chinese woman, would you believe he was, or would you continue to look for passages in the bible that claims he was something other?

[3lzamir]

Today Moors are called Negros. lol

[3lzamir]

Get over it, the Moors were all Black. True, Arabs where brothers of the Islamic Moors that took Spain together, but no one back then ever mixed up the two. If you where Moor you where called Moor and if you where Arab you were called Arab. I'm telling you "Moor" just means Black or Dark. It really meant way more than that too, but it was always known as those great Blacks. lol

[3lzamir]

@chanceryals1 Caucasian means that you're from the Caucasus Mountains. The Caucasus Mountains are found in Europe not in North Africa. And the word "Berber" once meant "Black People" to the Arabs back in 711. Today "Berber" just means people part of that language Group. It's not a race. There are Black Berbers as well has white ones today. As for the Moors, first off even the word "Moor" meant "Black" to the Caucasians back then. Even if you Googled "Moor Fish" you'll find a Black Goldfish. Hmm.

[TheStarGardian]

Even Beethoven was described as a Black Moor. As well as his mother: Frau Fischer, an intimate acquaintance (i.e sexual acquaintance) of Beethoven, describes him thus, "Short, stocky, broad shoulders, short neck, round nose, blackish-brown complexion." (From R. H. Schauffler, The Man Who Freed Music, Vol. I, p. 18, 1929).