S. A. Johnson

Some contemporary Muslim scholars view Ibn Khaldun's fourteenth century classification of the sciences in the Muqaddimah as the model for reuniting the philosophical and religious sciences in an Islamic curriculum they perceive to be bifurcated by Westernization. This study show…

This study of "The Children of Ham in America" is an investigation into the nineteenth-century uses of the myth of Ham. Because Ham was perceived to be the ancestor of the Negro race, Ham was the key to articulating a Negro past that was ancient and dignified. For instance, the …