True but these slaves served a different purpose. Turks were military slaves . The persisna and byzantine were people who came from anicent and sophisticated civilizations who the arabs copied from their models of governance to their literature. Whereas Africans are described as savages with no civilization . This is a massive difference. In most non African societies lighter skin and lighter hair is the beauty standard. And when the arabs adopted byzantine and persian culture. This became even more deeply ingrained .
I'm not too sure but keep in mind that aksum seems to have declined soon after the the arab conquests. I think by like 700 a.d they were gone. Also aksum was never really on the level or even close to the byzantine and persian empires.
Yeah but the more i think about it the more i realize it's an insane comparison to make. The other three great powers are rome, persia, and china, . The smallest of these three great empires was persia and they had over 10 million people. That's over 10 times aksums pouplation and that's assuming the pouplation was actually 1 million people. There's also the fact that their territory was incredibly small. In comparison to the other 3 especially when you factor in most of souther arabia is just uninhabitable desert. I dont even want to get into the fact that the sheer amount of surving artifacts from these other great powers is like 10-100 times any aksumite stuff we found.
Nah they saw the franks(northern euroepan as savages) southern Europens and the byzantine were considered their equals. That was also only in the early islamid period. A lot of the crusaders were franks and by then they weren't consdier savages since these are the same guys who were able to invade and take over muslim land.Are you talking about Zanj? They generally describe them as such but they also described Europeans in similar ways, they saw them as uncivilized, savage, barbaric and filthy, sexually immoral ,unintelligent, violent etc
Look through this summary
Islamic views on the crusades - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
A lot of times it also just seems like they are describe non-muslims generally in a negative light or describe societies that differ from their own Arab centric vantage point.
Give us sources
lol why do shias portray him with white skin
Ali probably had average Saudi Arab skin tune. The portraits aren't accurate, and it depends on the guy drawing it. Ali in these portraits for example is youthful, strong and fit, which are in contradictory to how he looked, at least during fitna period.
www.ethiopia-insight.com
Its just fabrication.
But aksum didn't control all of ethiopia . It was only the tigray and the northern parts of the amhara region not even the whole region. They also only controlled souther arabian and the hejaz. Both regions didn't have a large pouplation either. Also iran itself is almost same size as modern ethiopia. The persian empire was a lot larger than just modern iran. It also lots of large cities. The aksumites only had aksum we haven't found any other big city .They also saw the Scandinavian Vikings like Franks as well, called filthy and savages.
You know what you are actually right, that religion explanation wont really hold up when they don't speak of Greeks and Byzantine Romans the same way.
The Romans as Viewed by Arabic Authors in the 9th Century
https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/download/11322/10930
Their territory was not small, take a portion of the horn landmass and place it onto Europe's and the expanse will be seen as an empire anywhere else.
Maps on the Web
Placed over Europe, Ethiopia perfectly touches the shores of Adriatic, Baltic and Black seas.mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
Didn't they say that only 2% of Axum areas are even surveyed or excavated?
And that 95% of the city of Axum is buried?
Aksum's true glory kept under wraps by fearful bureaucracy - Ethiopia Insight
Most visitors to Aksum, the ancient Ethiopian capital, glimpse little of its past grandeur. So much of this city's wonders still lie buried
Do you have have study that goes into Axumite? if you do i want to know more on it
Look at the the Rashaida people of Eritrea and Sudan those are the true Arabs with the highest natufian ancestry they are dark skinned they look different from this gulf Arabs
Same thing in Somalia but even worse. In Opone, not even a single percent has been excavated of the ancient city. Much less larger more important cities like Mosylon or Rhapta.They also saw the Scandinavian Vikings like Franks as well, called filthy and savages.
You know what you are actually right, that religion explanation wont really hold up when they don't speak of Greeks and Byzantine Romans the same way.
The Romans as Viewed by Arabic Authors in the 9th Century
https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/download/11322/10930
Their territory was not small, take a portion of the horn landmass and place it onto Europe's and the expanse will be seen as an empire anywhere else.
Maps on the Web
Placed over Europe, Ethiopia perfectly touches the shores of Adriatic, Baltic and Black seas.
Didn't they say that only 2% of Axum areas are even surveyed or excavated?
And that 95% of the city of Axum is buried?
Aksum's true glory kept under wraps by fearful bureaucracy - Ethiopia Insight
Most visitors to Aksum, the ancient Ethiopian capital, glimpse little of its past grandeur. So much of this city's wonders still lie buried
Do you have have study that goes into Axumite? if you do i want to know more on it
