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ajiss-2514	Ali, Hassan E.	Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Inquiry By Bernard Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press. 1990, 169 pp.	1993.0	2	.pdf	application/pdf	575	25	59	The main theme of the book, as Lewis states clearly in his concluding remarks, is that Islam's total racial hannony and ilUlocence is a myth created, maintained, and idealized by westerners as a rebuke to the ac­ tions of the white man in the Americas and South Africa. In his analysis, Lewis tries lo distinguish between three distinct mean­ ings of Islam:	cache/ajiss-2514.pdf	txt/ajiss-2514.txt