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Just off hand, remember it as an Arabic Islamic statement on the texture of most African's hair.*
Somewhere, probably in a hadith, it says to the effect; obey your ruler, even if his hair is [full of knaps that it looks like] a raisin.
Ok, here it is but needs source.
quote: AHADITH
Anas bin Malik reported that the Prophet said, ” Listen and obey( your ameer) even if one is appointed who is a slave from Abyssinia whose head is like a raisin.”
~ Bukhari ~
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* Even today some Arabs (generally those with some Asian antecedents) will tease an African: "You can't change your hair."; meaning part the hair.
Obviously most nappy hair textures do indeed part but, thank goodness, does not flop.
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Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
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I should have stated in the question that it was a term used by Arabs.
Does anyone know when Islamic culture begin to describe black Africans by their actual complexion? It seems to make more sense that they would describe Africans by their complexion rather than their hair texture, as that is more obvious.
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quote:Originally posted by kdolo: " It seems to make more sense that they would describe Africans by their complexion rather than their hair texture, as that is more obvious."
That is not more obvious if the Arabs and related peoples themselves were as dark or similar darknas 'Africans'.
That is what I was thinking. It is like some Europeans calling blonde haired Europeans "towheads". They can't distinguish by describing them as white as they white as themselves. The only way around it is to describe them as by their main difference which is the hair colour, or in the case of the Arabs their hair texture.
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quote:Does anyone know when Islamic culture begin to describe black Africans by their actual complexion? It seems to make more sense that they would describe Africans by their complexion rather than their hair texture, as that is more obvious.
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