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I’m in the process of writing my seminar paper about African-American female poetry in the Harlem Renaissance. I’m discussing the double oppression African-American women faced (and still do), and the intersectionality of race and gender.

If anyone has any articles or books about that (could be about the poetry or anything else... like anything could help), PLEASE SEND ME LINKS OR NAMES!!!

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I decided to start a thread about medieval Arab political thought because I just finished a course on this and it is super interesting.

Firstly, I need to make a distinction between Arab philosophy and Islamic philosophy: while those are often used interchangeably, Arab philosophy is a more accurate term because the thoughts and ideas presented were not all by muslims, and not all Islamic philosophies were written in Arabic, or by Muslims. Another reason is that while, yes these thoughts were often written in relation to Islam, they weren’t all focused about Islam, or any other religion.

Let’s start with the term “philosophy” in terms of society and politics: what does it mean?

Well, first of all, Ancient Greek philosophy was all about the truth and achieving the truth. It revolved around civil life - the common idea was that only a philosopher - a good philosopher - is able to govern a society because they know more about the truth that the masses. This notion was passed down through Hellenistic studies into neo-Platonism, the hub of which being Alexandria. Neo-Platonism was preserved and passed down through the ages until it reached Arabic. Philosophy then was translated into فلسفة سياسية (falsafa siasia), which translates to “political philosophy.” However, the word “siasia” - loosely means “political” - is much more complicated to translate into english or any other modern langauge. “Siasia” comes from a different word which means “to manage” (meaning to manage something in order to fix it). While Arab philosophy is Hellenistic in nature, it also differs due to the societal structure during medieval times. Politics was all encompassing and philosophers often discussed matters that have to do with education, unification, obedience, etc. in relation to cosmological beliefs.

Now, this is where we get two branches of “falsafa” (philosophy): سياسة مدنية siasa madania (political philosophy), and سياسة شرعية siasa shar’ia (politics that follow the religious law).

[In the next post, I will explain each branch]

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