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====Imam Malik==== | ====Imam Malik==== | ||
==Race in Islamic doctrine== | ==Race and Tribe in Islamic doctrine== | ||
===Superiority (''fadl'') of the Arabs=== | ===Superiority (''fadl'') of the Arabs=== | ||
====Classical views==== | ====Classical views==== | ||
{{Quote|{{citation|author=Ibn Taymiyyah|title=Iqtida Sirat al-Mustaqim|publisher=al-Maktaba al-Shamila|Chapter=The difference between the Arab and non-Arab races|volume=1|pages=419-461|url=https://app.turath.io/book/11620}}|'''The Arabs are more intelligent than those other than themselves and are more capable in delivery and expression''' . . . verily, what the people of the sunnah are upon is the belief (i’tiqaad) that '''the Arab race is better (afdal) than the Non-Arab race'''. Whether (the Non-Arabs) are Hebrews, Aramaic, Romans, Persians and other than them . . . not simply due to the fact the prophet peace be upon him is from them – even though this is [a point] of superiority – but instead, '''they themselves are superior within themselves''' . . . [for] '''Allah the Most High has designated the Arabs and their language with rulings that are peculiar and unique.'''”}} | {{Quote|{{citation|author=Ibn Taymiyyah|title=Iqtida Sirat al-Mustaqim|publisher=al-Maktaba al-Shamila|Chapter=The difference between the Arab and non-Arab races|volume=1|pages=419-461|url=https://app.turath.io/book/11620}}|'''The Arabs are more intelligent than those other than themselves and are more capable in delivery and expression''' . . . verily, what the people of the sunnah are upon is the belief (i’tiqaad) that '''the Arab race is better (afdal) than the Non-Arab race'''. Whether (the Non-Arabs) are Hebrews, Aramaic, Romans, Persians and other than them . . . not simply due to the fact the prophet peace be upon him is from them – even though this is [a point] of superiority – but instead, '''they themselves are superior within themselves''' . . . [for] '''Allah the Most High has designated the Arabs and their language with rulings that are peculiar and unique.'''”}}{{Quote|Abu Hanifah quoted in {{citation|author=Muhammad al-Shaybani|title=al-Jami al-Sagheer|pages=140-141}} quoted in {{citation|author=Susan A. Spectorsky|title=Women in Classical Islamic Law|publisher=Brill|page=77|ISBN=978 90 04 17435 1|year=2010}}|'''The Quraysh are each other’s equals, and the Arabs are each other’s equals'''. Among the non-Arabs, whoever has two Muslim parents or grandparents are each other’s equal.}} | ||
====Modern views==== | ====Modern views==== | ||