The 'Negro' in Arab-Muslim Consciousness organic Author: Harold Cruse

Author: Harold Cruse

Can we use poetics to understand scripture

- Inner sheet printed with a Quranic verse and translation

after the Quran

not simply for carbon credits or preventing the extinction of one species versus another

The 'Negro' in Arab-Muslim Consciousness organic Author: Harold CruseWhat is '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