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Moses Maimonides: Dilalat al-hairin

(Guide to the Perplexed) (d1204)

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Taken from: Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays edited by Julie K. Ward, Tommy L. Lott

Among those who are incapable of approaching monotheistic belief are the Turks and the nomads in the North, the Blacks and the nomads in the South and those who resemble them in our own climates and their nature is like the nature of mute animals and, according to my opinion, they are not on the level of human beings, and their level among existing things is below that of man and above that of a monkey, because they have the image and the resemblance of a man more than a monkey does.