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Chapter Ten
RACE-MIXING UNDER ISLAM
ONE fact about Islam stands glowingly forth through the centuries: Its
almost total freedom from race and class prejudice; the opportunity it
gave to every capable and aspiring follower, regardless of color or
social status, to rise to the highest possible rank.
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Slaves rose to be sultans, and slave women to be favorites of the
ruler, and mothers of heirs to the throne. At times the slave,
himself, became a master while still enslaved and held freeborn men of
wealth and power in dread of him.
Christianity, which too, was an Oriental religion, had begun with the
same broadmindedness. "Of one blood," said St Paul, "God made all the
races of the earth." Race distinctions were unknown in early
Christianity.
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The first great leaders of Christianity, next to St. Paul, were all
born in parts of Africa where Negro strain was abundant in the
population, and were very likely Negroes themselves.
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This is true of St. Augustine, Tertullian, Origen, Cyprian, and
Clement of Alexandria. Tertullian and St. Athanasius (296-373 A.D.),
for whom the Athanasian Creed is named, are definitely said to have
been Negroes. Nevertheless, Christianity was not long in developing
class differences in addition to slavery and after the discovery of
the New World color prejudice too.
Of What Race Was Mohamet?
Mohamet, the founder of Islam, was an Arab. What is an Arab?
The Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition) says of Arabia's present
inhabitants, "Arabia has a considerable free black population and
there again by intermarriage with the whites around have filled the
land with a mulatto breed of every shade till in the eastern and
southern provinces especially a white skin is almost an exception.
In Arabia no prejudice exists against Negro alliances; no social or
political line separates the African from the Arab."
There is every reason to believe that the above picture has been true
of Arabia for the past several thousand years. Arabia is but an
extension of Africa where black people from the southwest, and white,
or nearly white people, from the northwest met to mingle their
cultures and their blood.
Mohamet, himself, was to all accounts a Negro. A contemporary of his
describes him as "large-mouthed," and "bluish-coloured, with hair that
was
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neither straight nor curly,"1* that is, hair that was probably frizzly
like that of the "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." "Bluish," also, happens to be the
precise color of certain very Negroid natives of the Sudan. Mohamet's
mother was also African. His grandfather, Abd el Mottalib, is spoken
of as being "very dark." He might have been a slave, "Abd" or "aabd"
originally meant "slave." Therefore when Dermenghamlb says that the
Negro strain "seemed scarcely perceptible,"in Mohamet, he is evidently
wrong.
Most of Mohamet's first disciples were Negro slaves. His second
convert and closest and most honored friend until his death was Bilal,
an Ethiopian ex-slave. Mohamet thought so highly of Bilal that he gave
him precedence over himself in Paradise. Mohamet also adopted as his
own son, another Negro, Zayd bin Harith, his third convert, who rose
to be one of his greatest generals.2 Later, to show his regard for
Zayd, he took one of Zayd's wives, the beautiful Zainab, as his own.
One of Mohamet's earliest injunctions was, "Variety of your languages
and of your complexions, verily herein are signs unto men of
understanding." (Koran XXX, 21).
Of course, the mere issuance of this injunction is proof that there
must have been some prejudice against color. In fact, wherever
differences of color exist, there are certain preferences, mostly
sexual, which like anything else in creation can be expanded into a
fetish over which human beings can be made to fight.
Hollywood, for instance, gives the preference to blondes; and
gentlemen, we are told, prefer blondes. It must be rather irritating
for a brunette beauty to find herself rejected by a movie director,
because her skin and hair are not whiter.
Arabia, in Mohamet's time, was, even as it now is, a mulatto land.
These mulattoes considered themselves superior, but not very seriously
so to both the "pure" whites and the "pure" blacks. This trait was not
local, nor is it entirely of the past. Certain old mulatto families of
the West Indies, West Africa, and Ethiopia still feel the same towards
whites and blacks.
The Arab considered a white skin inferior; perhaps one had better say
he had a certain repulsion for it such as exists today nearly over all
Africa and Southern Asia because of its unfamiliarity.
Gobineau says that Mohamet was too near divinity "to show a white
skin" to his followers. Professor Toynbee says also, "The Primitive
Arabs who were the ruling element of the Umayyad Caliphate called
themselves 'the swarthy people' with a connotation of racial
superiority and their Persian and Turkish subjects 'the ruddy people'
with a connotation of racial inferiority, that is to say, they drew
the distinction that we draw between blonds and brunets but reversed
the values."3
*» Margoliouth, D. S. Mohammed, p. 63. London, 1927. lb
Dermengham. Life of Mohamet, p. 5. London, 1930. 2 Islamic
Review. Vol. 20, p. 220. June-July, 1932. » A Study of History.
Vol. I, p. 226. London, 1934.
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This feeling of superiority on the part of a mixed race was probably
heightened by the very low culture of the Nordics of that time.
Draper, writing of the eleventh century, speaks of the vastly superior
social and artistic development of the swarthy Moors, who, he says,
might well have looked "with supercilious contempt on the dwellings of
the rulers of Germany, France, and England, which were scarce better
than stables—chimneyless, windowless, and with a hole in the roof for
the smoke to escape like the wigwams of certain Indians."4
The Zenghs, or Zends, the very black natives of Africa, who were
imported in great numbers as slaves, were looked down on too, probably
for the same reason. A work by Al-Jahiz, a Negro writer, whom
Christopher Dawson calls "the greatest scholar and stylist of the
Ninth Century,"5 leaves little doubt of that. This book is entitled
Kitab al Sudan wa 'l-Bidan, or "The Superiority in Glory of the Black
Race Over the White," a title that speaks for itself. "White" here, be
it noted, does not mean the fair whites, but dark-skinned whites and
mulattoes.
In parts of the East, as in Ethiopia, the fair white is called "the
red man." Moreover, Jahiz in his essay includes the East Indians among
the blacks—a people which many modern ethnologists claim as white.
Another writer of that time, Masudi, has written at length of these
primitive blacks.6
The latter were treated so badly by their masters, some of whom were
native-born blacks, that they rose in what was undoubtedly the
greatest slave rebellion in history, including even that of Haiti,
Under their leader, Al Burkhui, (The Veiled Prophet), they seized
Bagdad, the capital of the world's then mightiest empire, and held it
for thirteen years (870-883 A.D.).
The Zenghs killed more than half a million of their oppressors, an
enormous number for that day. Cutting off the heads of their masters
they would toss the heads in the canals of the Tigris and let them
drift down the stream to anxious relatives waiting to see who were the
next.7
Several passages in Arabian literature also reveal a certain prejudice
against the pure blacks. In the great Arabian sex classic, Er Roud el
aater fi nezaha el khater, (The Perfumed Garden), the remarks of the
Caliph when he witnesses the sexual prowess of the Negro, Al Durgham,
and his careful inquiry into the cause of his powers, leave little
doubt of that.8
Also, the
4 Intellectual Development of Europe, p. 348. N. Y., 1863.
»The Making of Europe, p. 152. N, Y„ 1932. Hitti. P. K. History
of the Arabs, p. 382. London, 1937.
6Les Prairies d'Or. (trans. C. Barbier de Meynard), Vol. I, pp.
163-67; Vol. Ill, chap. 33. Paris, 1863.
7 Hitti, P. K. Ibid, pp. 467-68.
8Nefzawi. Le Jardin Parfume. History of the Negro, Doreramus, pp.
44-72. Paris, 1927.
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poet, An-Nami, when mocked about his gray hairs by another, who said
that An-Nami had but a single black hair in his head, replied, "A dark
African spouse will not remain long in the house where the second wife
is white." (Note that "white" in the East, as in Brazil, is sometimes
dark mulatto).
Abu Ishak, a poet, who wrote much in favor of his black slave, Yumn,
also says, "The dark-skinned Yumn said to one whose colour equalled
the whiteness of the eye, "Why should your face boast of its clear
complexion? Do you think that by so clear a tint it gains additional
merit? Were a mole of my colour on that face it would adorn it, but
one of your coloui on my cheek would disfigure it.' "9
Two of the greatest of all Oriental rulers, Antar and Kafur, both
suffered from color prejudice at first. Antar, who was the son of an
Ethiopian slave, was despised by the Bedouins, themselves a Negroid
people, because of his blackness. Antar is the greatest chivalrous
figure of the East and one of the world's great poets.10
Kafur, "a Negro of deep-black color with a smooth shining skin," who
had been brought out of the Sudan as a slave, and who later rose to be
ruler of Egypt and Syria, was at first mocked by his fellow-slaves,
and called "the moon of darkness' by the celebrated poet,
Al-Muttanabi.11
The phrase, "black but comely" which is said to be a correct
translation, also shows some objection to black. Some of this feeling
still exists in the East. I recall seeing once in Cairo a very black
man with short woolly hair but with an almost Grecian profile. The
type being unfamiliar to me, I asked my companion, a Bedouin, who was
at least three-fourths Negro, himself, whether the man was an
Egyptian. "No/' he replied, "that's what they call a nigger." He said
that his father had people like him as slaves but added quickly that
they were treated very kindly.
This prejudice against unmixed white and unmixed black has long
existed in Ethopia also.12 Count Gleichen correctly said that the
Ethiopian "hates a white man" and is anxious to keep him out of his
country.
The Amhara, who, in general, show more of the Negro than the average
Afra-merican, look down upon the Chankalla, or primitive black. But
this is largely true only of the first generation.
Numbers of leading Ethiopians show a marked Chankalla strain. The
great Emperor Menelik, who was coal-black, came of this stock. His
mother, Edgig-aiehou, was a Chankalla slave. In Egypt, too, these
black Negroes, some of them with their tribal
8 Ibn Khallikan. Biographical Dictionary, (trans. MacGuckin de Slane),
Vol. I, pp. 32, 111. Paris, 1842-71.
10 Hamilton, T. Antar. 4 vols. London, 1880. Also Biographie
Universelle
n Ibn Khallikan. Biographical Dictionary (McGuckin de Slane), Vol. II,
pp. 524 et seq. Paris. 1842.
12 Ludolphus. History of Ethiopia. Book I, chap. 14. London,
1682.
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markings, hold high rank in the Egyptian army. The chamberlain of the
late King Fouad was a black, Sammi Bey, while the prime minister,
Nahas Pasha, was a mulatto. In short, the prejudice in the East cannot
be explained in terms of the American one. It is cultural rather than
chromatic. The nearest thing to it, I know, is the prejudice the
Northern Negro entertains for most of the Southern ones.
Color, then, was no serious bar under Islam, or in the East, from the
earliest times. Several of the rulers of the Mohammedan Empire, at the
height of its glory were not only mulattoes, but blacks. Such a one
was Ibrahim al-Mahdi, Islam's most renowned singer, and the
half-brother of Haroun Al-Raschid of Arabian Nights' fame. Ibrahim
calls himself "a Negro" in his autobiography.
So does his uncle and rival for the throne, Mamoun the Great.
Ibrahim's mother was the daughter of a Persian king.
Ibn Khallikan, Arab historian of the thirteenth century, says of
Ibrahim, "Being of dark complexion which he inherited from his mother,
Shikla or Shakla, who was a Negro, he received the name of
At-Thinnin—the Dragon (due to his size and the blackness of his skin)
— He was proclaimed Caliph at Bagdad.. .under the title of Al Mubarak
(The Blessed)."13 At least two of the other caliphs, Al Muktafi and
Rachid, had Negro mothers, according to Suyuti.
The renowned Kafur, ruler of Egypt, was a thick-lipped Negro slave of
Chankalla birth; Haroun Al-Raschid made Khusabeb, another Negro
ex-slave, ruler of Egypt.14 Mahmud of Ghazni, greatest of the Islamic
conquerors, was the son of a slave.
The Mamelukes, some of whom were white slaves from the Russian
Caucasus, and some of whom were Negro slaves from the Sudan, ruled
Egypt for three centuries (1250-1517), and held great power when
Napoleon invaded Egypt. Moslem India, also, has had many great rulers
of Negro descent, one of whom was Malik Ambar,15 a Negro ex-slave, who
ruled in Bombay; and Malik Andeel, another Negro ex-slave who ruled in
Bengal.16
The Nawabs, or Nabobs, great Moslem princes of India, are originally
of Ethiopian Negro stock.17 They enjoyed great power until the
beginning of the nineteenth century.
Negro Ranked First in Sexual Competence
As regards sex relations, the real index to prejudice, there was
little ill-will either. Black men, some of whom were eunuchs, had
sometimes great harems with women of many races. One of these
latter, Sunbullu (The
is Ibn Khallikan. Ibid, Vol. I, p. 17.
"Sadi. Gulistan (ed. Sir Edward Arnold), pp. 80-1. N. Y., 1899.
is See 40.
16 See 41.
" Morie, L. J. Histoire de l'Ethiopie, Vol. II, p. 33. Paris,
1904.
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In a footnote to the second story in which the master's daughter gives
herself to a Negro, Burton says, "This familiarity with blackamoor
slave-boys is common in the East and often ends as in the story.
"In my time no honest Hindi-Moslem would take his women-folk to
Zanzibar on account of the huge attraction and enormous temptation
there and thereby offered to them." (Burton, here refers to the
muscular black men, wandering nude on the streets.)19
Napoleon on Race-Mixing in the East
When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798 and saw how the different colors
of mankind lived in harmony under Islam, while in Christian Haiti,
whites, mulattoes, and blacks were at one another's throats in a
three-cornered war, he was so impressed that he tried to introduce
legal race-mixing in Haiti. He said,
"These countries were inhabited by men of different colors. Polygamy
is the simple way of preventing them from persecuting one another. The
legislators have thought that in order that the whites be not enemies
of the blacks, the blacks of the whites, the copper-colored of the one
and the other, it was necessary to make them all members of the same
family and struggle thus against a penchant of man to hate all that is
not like him.
Mohamet thought that four women were sufficient to attain this goal
because each man could have one white, one black, one copper-colored,
and one wife of another color...
"When one wishes to give liberty to the blacks in the colonies of
America and establish a perfect equality, the legislator will
authorise polygamy and permit at the same time a white wife, a black
one, and a mulatto one. Then the different colors making part of the
same family will be mixed in the opinion of each. Without that one
would never obtain satisfactory results. The blacks would be more
nurgerous and clever and they would hold the whites in abasement and
vice versa.
"Because of the general principle of equality that polygamy has
established in the East there is no difference between the
individuals composing the house of the Mamelukes. A black slave that a
bey had bought from an African caravan became katchef and was the
equal of a fine white Mameluk, native of Circassia; there was no
thought even of having it otherwise.
"Slavery has never been in the Orient what it was in Europe.
The customs in this respect have remained the same as in the Holy
Scriptures: the servant marries with the master. In Europe, on the
contrary, whoever bore the imprint of the seal of slavery remained
always in the last rank.. ."20
"Vol. I. pp. 1-16 6. 71: Vol. II. p. 49: Vol. IV, pp. 245-60, 253,
278. *>Memoires. Vol. III. pp. 152-54. 259-76. Paris. 1904.
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In short, the Negro, was discriminated against in no phase of
Mohammedan life on the ground of color alone. Islam was the greatest
and freest of all great melting pots.
And it carried race-mixing throughout the length and breadth of what
was the vastest empire the world has ever known. At the height of its
power Islam stretched from the centre of France south to the
Mediterranean and along both shores of this sea to the Levant and from
thence to India, China, and the islands of the Pacific, as well as
into Asiatic Russia.
The sultans in this vast area were of all colors from blond to
coal-black and wives of all colors were to be found in their harems.
White captives of both sexes were taken from Europe and scattered over
North Africa and Asia and black captives of both sexes were carried
into Europe and Asia. Differences of color among the Mohammedans came
in time to count for almost as little as the different colors of
flowers in a garden does to the flowers themselves.
A Negroid strain, more or less predominant, ran through the whole. As
Keane says, "All who accepted the Koran became merged with the
conquerors in a common Negroid population."21
It was this empire founded by the black Mohamet with the help of
brown, yellow and white mongrels that aroused proud Europe from the
slumber of the Dark Ages, and laid the foundations of its present
culture. It was the great Arab chemists, architects, mathematicians,
physicians, and experimental scientists to whom we are largely
indebted for modern science.
Go to any part of the Mohammedan world—to India, Indo-China, Egypt,
Morocco, Spain—and you will behold art whose beauty mankind seems to
have lost the conception of. Near to the Alhambra, for instance, is a
structure erected by the architects of the Emperor Charles V of Spain
and Germany. Compared with the superb beauty of the Alhambra the
latter, is to say the least, crude and clumsy.
It was the Arabs, too, who gave to Europe her present system of
numerals, which they, in turn, had taken from the Hindus. Match this
Arabic or Hindu numeral, against the tedious and cumbersome Roman
letter-numerals! No wonder Nietzsche raged in anger when he thought of
how the Moors who had done so much for European civilization had been
driven out like dogs by the Christians.
Race-mixing, as we thus see, has been one of the functions of empire.
Egypt, Persia, Macedonia, Rome, brought hordes of whites, browns, and
blacks and amalgamated them. All great empires seem, to begin with
race-mixing, and die when they become too pure. The races that are
furthest down are the purest ones, as the Veddahs of Ceylon, the
Andaman Islanders, the Pigmies, and the Semangs. The mixed ones are
the furthest up. What 21 Man, Past and Present, p. 64. Cambridge,
1920.
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land is more mixed than the United States, which is now at the top ?
America, as we shall show in Volume Two, is more vastly mixed than the
average person imagines. The race-purists usually shut their eyes to
this fact. Petrie showed how repeated Ethiopian invasions brought new
life to Egypt.
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A pure race may be compared to standing water; a mixed race, to
running water. The former soon becomes stagnant; the latter by running
purifies itself. Nature knows her business. She is wiser than all
in this respect.
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Egypt Today
The color pattern of the Egyptian population today may be summed up as
follows: In Alexandria and the Delta rather more white than black due
to European immigration; at Cairo, there is also a large European
population but the native population is mulatto, and shades off
towards dark mulatto; at Thebes, it is predominantly dark mulatto with
a large proportion of blacks; and in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it is
far more black than mulatto with only a sprinkling of whites, mostly
Europeans.
Some of these blacks haven't the broad features of the average West
African black, but their hair is woolly. Some of the jet-black,
woolly-haired Negroes, as the so-called Fuzzy-Wuzzies, have Grecian
profiles.
A Levantine strain is also apparent in certain of the population. In
short, this black population s very highly mixed.
The people of Southern Persia are still largely Negroid. Some are pure
Negroes, like the Bombassi. The Susians in the lower valley of the
Euphrates are also strongly Negroid. In all this region of the Near
East the supply of "pure" Negroes was kept up by the slave trade and
the recruiting of black women for the harems, which still goes on.
Negroes in this latter region also marry white women.
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