Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Race and Tribe: Difference between revisions

al-Ibshihi (1388–1446), Egyptian scholar who wrote an encyclopedia covering Islamic law, theology, mysticism, and some other topics.{{Quote|{{citation|url=https://app.turath.io/book/23802|page=328|author=Shihab al-Din al-Ibshihi|title=al-Mustatraf fi Kul Fan Mustatraf|publisher=al-Maktaba al-Shamila}}; translated in {{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}}|Is there anything more vile than black slaves, of less good and more evil than they'? As for ‎the mulatto, if ‎you show kindness to one of them all your life and in every way, he will not ‎be grateful; and it will be as if ‎you had done nothing for him. The better you treat him, the ‎more insolent he will he; the worse you treat ‎him, the more humble and submissive. I have ‎tried this many times, and how well the poet says: ‘If you honor the honorable you possess ‎him / If you honor the ignoble, he will be insolent.’ It is said that when the [black] slave is ‎sated, he fornicates, when he is hungry, he steals. My grandfather ‎on my mother's side ‎used to say: The worst use of money is bringing up slaves, and mulattoes are even ‎worse ‎and wickeder than Zanj, for the mulatto does not know his father, while the Zanji often ‎knows both ‎parents. It is said of the mulatto that he is like a mule, because he is a mongrel. ‎‎. . . Do not trust a mulatto, ‎for there is rarely any good in him‎}}

The following quotes a regional governor writing to final Umayyad caliph, Marwan II (r. 744-750)

{{Quote|Recorded by al-Jahshiyari (d. 942), a prominent Abbasid bureaucrat and scholar, in his ''Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab'' (or ''Book of Viziers and Scribes''). Translated and quoted in: {{citation|editor=Bernard Lewis|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1987|title=Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople|page=197|ISBN=9780195050875|url=https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/islam-9780195050875?cc=us&lang=en&}}|A governor presented Marwan with a black slave. He said to 'Abd al-Hamid, "Write to him and disparage what he has done" 'Abd al-Hamid wrote to the governor, "Had you found a worse color than black and a smaller number than one, you would have sent that." This is adapted from the saying of a Bedouin who was asked what children he had, and replied, "Little and bad." When asked what he meant, he replied, "Not less than one, not worse than a daughter."}}