Research Catalog

Title

Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs : the great Semitic divergence in world history / Ali A. Mazrui ; edited by Seifudein Adem.

Author

Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Adem, Seifudein

Description

vii, 468 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Jews > Europe > History
• Arabs > Africa > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Towards the Europeanization of the Jews and the Africanization of the Arabs: an introduction -- Semitic divergence and African convergence -- The Talmudic tradition in comparative perspective -- Muslims between the Jewish example and the Black experience -- Blacks, Jews and comparative diasporas -- Is Israel a threat to American democracy? -- Afrabia: from Arabo-Hebraic divergence to Afro-Arab convergence -- The Black Arabs in comparative perspective -- The multiple marginality of the Sudan -- Africa and Egypt's four circles: Nasser's legacy -- Afro-Arab crossfire: between the flames of terrorism and the force of Pax Americana -- Eurafrica, Eurabia, and African-Arab relations: the tensions of tripolarity -- Comparative slavery: Western, Muslim and African legacies -- Comparative racism: Zionism ad Apartheid -- Comparative terrorism: Arab, Jewish and African (Usama, Sharon and Shaka) -- Black intifadah: the Mau Mau War and the Palestinian uprising -- Between intifadah and Al Qaeda: East African perspective -- Muslims in a century of four ethical revolutions -- African and Islam in search of seven pillars of wisdom -- Islam and the United States: streams of convergence, strands of divergence -- The semitic impact on Africa: Arab and Jewish influences -- Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs in world history: a conclusions.

ISBN

0761838570 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007935042

OCLC

• 166368691
• SCSB-10679875

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library