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46. Respective Commentaries to Genesis 9:25.
47. Davis, Slavery and Human Progress, p. 42, On this point, and the Curse of Ham
generally, see B. Lewis, Race and Slavery in the Middle East, pp. 123—125, n. 9-
Incredibly, Jan Nederveen Pieterse (White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in
Western Popular Culture [New Haven, 1992], p. 44 and p. 237, n. 43) cites Davis here
as a reference for his statement that "the association of the curse of Canaan with blackness
arose.. .in medieval Talmudic texts," precisely the opposite of what Davis actually
said.
48. Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, ed. E. Quatremere (Paris, 1858) 1:151; translation
of F. Rosenthal, 2nd ed. (London, 1967) 1:169-170. Tabarl, Tarikh, ed. MJ. de
Goeje, vol. 1 (Leiden, 1879), pp. 215, 223; translation of William M. Brinner, The
History of al-Taban, vol. 2 (New York, 1987), pp. 14, 21. On Ibn Khaldun's Muslim
genealogists, see Walter J. Fischel, "Ibn Khaldun: on the Bible, Judaism, and the
Jews," Ignace Goldziher Memorial Volume, ed. S. Lowinger et al. (Jerusalem, 1958) 2:157.
49. My English follows the Italian translation of Enrico Cerulli, Somalia 1 (Rome,
1957), p. 254, text on p. 234. The Kitab al-Zunuj is a late nineteenth-century redaction
of earlier manuscripts. On the work, see Prins in the Journal of East Africa Swahili
Committee 28 (1958): 26-40, and G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, The Swahili Coast, 2nd to
19th Centuries (London, 1988), sec. II, pp. 8-9, originally published as Uganda
Museum Occasional Papers, No. 4: Discovering Africa's Past (Kampala, 1959).
50. The identity of slave and Black in Islamic societies also explains the association
of Canaan with black Africa (or with Kush) in Islamic sources; see n. 35. On this
point, see Paul Kaplan, "Ruler, Saint and Servant: Blacks in European Art to 1520"
(Ph.D. ciiss., Boston Univ., 1983), p. 172.
51. Samaritan: Tibat Marqe, ed. and trans, (into Hebrew) Z. Ben-Hayyim
(Jerusalem, 1988), pp. 288-289, sec. 232a. Christian: Ephrem the Syrian quoted in a
catena of patristic explanations and exegeses to the Pentateuch published by Paul de
Lagarde, Materialien zur Kritik und Geschichte des Pentateuchs (Leipzig, 1867), part II, p.
86, and cited bf M. Griinbaum, Neue Beilrage zur semitischen Sagenkunde (Lieden,
1893), p. 86.
52. See Steven Wasserstrom, "Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Muslim Literature: A
Bibliographical and Methodological Sketch" in Tracing the Threads: Studies in the
Vitality of Jewish Pseudepigrapha, ed. John C. Reeves (Atlanta, 1994), pp. 95, 99-100.
The same phenomenon occurs as traditions move into new historical and ideological
environments within the same culture. See Eli Yassif, "Traces of Folk Traditions of the
Second Temple Period in Rabbinic Literature," Journal of Jewish Studies 39 (1988):
212-233.
53. Oral Historiography (London, 1982), p. 4.
54. Several have been pointed out during the course of this essay. A few more
egregious errors may be noted.