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Dangerous distortions of history - Zanj revolt


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Dangerous distortions of history - Zanj revolt

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"The myth of Arab domination Until quite recently, the history of the East Coast of Africa has been portrayed - by Europeans and Arabs alike - as one of Muslim-Arab domination, with the African people and rulers playing a passive role in the process. Some 19th century and early 20th century British writers were contemptuous of a culture they regarded as 'half-caste' or 'mongrel'. But oral and archaeological evidence suggests that Swahili society was both dynamic and coherent. The relationship between people on the African main land on the one hand, and those from Arabia and Persia on the other, was in fact, one of mutual dependence and benefit. Therefore it does not make sense to talk of the Arabs 'appearing' on the East African coast and 'taking over' African societies." http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page75.shtml "Revisiting the Zanj and Re-Visioning Revolt: Complexities of the Zanj Conflict" This article gives different views including Shabin's "Instead, Shabin views the participants as primarily Arabs from the Persian Gulf and other free East Africans who lived in southern Iraq because they chose to live there. He contends that the economic importance of African goods that were traded throughout the region made conflict inevitable. African traders and merchants in Iraq attempted to establish and protect an effective monopoly on trade routes. The Abbasid central authority, on the other hand, could not allow this "monopoly" to exist, so they raised taxes" http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1157/is_4_62/ai_76402507/pg_5?tag=artBody;col1 Starting from page 100 you can read Shabin's argument http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA101 Interesting article "Viewpoint: African unity still a dream" The destinies of "Arabs" and "Africans" have historically and geographically been inextricably intertwined http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6177287.stm

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African, Africans, Arab, arabs, black, blacks, Islam, Islamic, kill, killings, koran, murder, Muslim, quran, race, Racism, racist, Sudan,

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