Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs: The Great Semitic Divergence in World History

The impact of European and Semitic peoples upon world civilization and African history is addressed in this scholarly study. The Jewish wing of the Semitic people converged with the Western world; the Arab wing of the Semites converged with Africa. The three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have confronted the racial divide between Caucasian people and people of color. This book explores the geographical regions of Africa, the Middle East, and the Western world in the context of fragile structures and resilient cultures.

Author: Ali A. Mazrui
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 508
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 8.74h x 7.16w x 1.36d
ISBN: 9780761838579


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 63

About the Author
Ali A. Mazrui is a distinguished political scientist, a leading historian, and a multimedia public intellectual. He has written dozens of books, and narrated documentaries on British and American television. In Eastern Africa he grew up among Arabs, and in England and the United States he was partly educated by Jews. Foreign Policy magazine has described Mazrui as one of the top 100 public intellectuals alive in the world today. Ali Mazrui is currently Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, New York; Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University, New York; and Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya. Seifudein Adem was educated in Ethiopia and Japan, and has taught in universities in Africa, Japan, and the United States. He is an expert on comparative politics and comparative cultural studies. His other books include Hegemony and Discourse and Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained. He has also written about the great Arab historian and inventor of modern sociology, Ibn Khaldun. Dr. Adem is currently Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York.