I would like to expand on this unanswered question posted a year ago and pose a question to the validity of Bernard Lewis claim “that ethnocentric bias later developed among Arabs due to their extensive conquests, the slave trade, and the influence of Aristotelian and Judeo-Christian ideas about human divisions”, and that “by the eighth century, anti-black prejudice led to widespread discrimination”
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Arab_attitudes_to_Black_people#Black_slaves_in_the_Arab_world
Helmi Sharawi, “The African in Arab Culture: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion”, in Imagining the Arab Other, How Arabs and Non‐Arabs View Each Other, ed. by Tahar Labib (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008), pp. 92-156;
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