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{{Quote|{{citation|title=Race and Slavery in the Middle East: A Historical Enquiry|author=Bernard Lewis|ISBN=978-0-19-506283-0|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|pages=92-99|chapter=Image and Stereotype}}|[Retelling an anecdote about "an Arab poet known as al-Sayyid al-Himyari (723-89)":] The Sayyid was my neighbor, and he was very dark. He used to carouse with the young men of the camp, one of whom was as dark as he was, with a thick nose and lips, and a Negroid [''muzannajj''] appearance. The Sayyid had the foulest smelling armpits of anybody. They were jesting together one day, and the Sayyid said to him: "You are a Zanji in your nose and your lips!" whereat the youth replied to the Sayyid: "And you are a Zanji in your color and armpits!"}} | {{Quote|{{citation|title=Race and Slavery in the Middle East: A Historical Enquiry|author=Bernard Lewis|ISBN=978-0-19-506283-0|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|pages=92-99|chapter=Image and Stereotype}}|[Retelling an anecdote about "an Arab poet known as al-Sayyid al-Himyari (723-89)":] The Sayyid was my neighbor, and he was very dark. He used to carouse with the young men of the camp, one of whom was as dark as he was, with a thick nose and lips, and a Negroid [''muzannajj''] appearance. The Sayyid had the foulest smelling armpits of anybody. They were jesting together one day, and the Sayyid said to him: "You are a Zanji in your nose and your lips!" whereat the youth replied to the Sayyid: "And you are a Zanji in your color and armpits!"}} | ||
== Historians on race and tribe in Islam == | ==Historians on race and tribe in Islam== | ||
=== Dr. Michael Penn === | ===Dr. Michael Penn=== | ||
Dr. Michael Penn is Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University | Dr. Michael Penn is Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University and is a specialist in early Islamic history. | ||
{{Quote|{{citation|title=Envisioning Islam - Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World|year=2015|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|page=59|ISBN=978-0-8122-4722-0|author=Michael Penn}}|Contrary to many present-day stereotypes of early Islam, throughout much of the seventh and early eighth centuries, admission into the ''umma'' was reserved exclusively for Arabs. Religious conversion was predicated on ethnic conversion. For a non-Arab to become Muslim, that individual first had to gain membership in an Arab tribe by becoming the ''mawlā'' (client) of an Arab sponsor. From a seventh-century Islamic perspective, ethnicity and religion were not independent variables. All Muslims were Arabs, and ideally all Arabs were Muslims.}} | {{Quote|{{citation|title=Envisioning Islam - Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World|year=2015|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|page=59|ISBN=978-0-8122-4722-0|author=Michael Penn}}|Contrary to many present-day stereotypes of early Islam, throughout much of the seventh and early eighth centuries, admission into the ''umma'' was reserved exclusively for Arabs. Religious conversion was predicated on ethnic conversion. For a non-Arab to become Muslim, that individual first had to gain membership in an Arab tribe by becoming the ''mawlā'' (client) of an Arab sponsor. From a seventh-century Islamic perspective, ethnicity and religion were not independent variables. All Muslims were Arabs, and ideally all Arabs were Muslims.}} | ||