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Bashir, Haroon. "Black Excellence and the Curse of Ham: Debating Race and Slavery in the Islamic Tradition." ReOrient 5, no. 1 (2019): 92–116.
Examines Muslim scholars' refutations of the "Curse of Ham" narrative in largely medieval Arabic religio-historical works. The article draws upon a breadth of sources from premodern Muslim historians, theologians, and Sufis to excavate a longstanding tradition of Black Excellence in Islamic contexts, within which the Curse of Ham narrative was refuted on religiohistorical grounds. The article engages conversations in the study of religion, Islam, historiography, and Blackness.
