{"id":709,"date":"2023-04-01T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/journal\/?post_type=article&#038;p=709"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:56:31","slug":"jews-trade-contribution-in-pre-colonial-africa-insights-on-the-historical-and-geographical-contexts","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/article\/jews-trade-contribution-in-pre-colonial-africa-insights-on-the-historical-and-geographical-contexts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jews\u2019 Trade Contribution in Pre-Colonial Africa: Insights on the Historical and Geographical Contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fc9f69e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\" style=\"font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><strong>\u0627\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0634\u0631: <\/strong>\u0645\u062c\u0644\u0629 \u0642\u0631\u0627\u0621\u0627\u062a \u0625\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0629<strong><br>\u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u062f:<\/strong> 56, April 2023<br><strong>\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0642\u064a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u064a<\/strong>: 2634-131X<strong><br>\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0646\u0629:<\/strong> 19<strong><br>\u0627\u0644\u0635\u0641\u062d\u0627\u062a: <\/strong>22-33<strong><br>\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0624\u0644\u0641<\/strong>: \u062f. \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0639\u0628\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0631\u064a\u0645 \u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f<br><a href=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/\u062f\u0648\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a-\u0641\u064a-\u0625\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627-\u0642\u0628\u0644-\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629.pdf\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"38\">\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644 pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/\u062f\u0648\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a-\u0641\u064a-\u0625\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627-\u0642\u0628\u0644-\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/\u062f\u0648\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a-\u0641\u064a-\u0625\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627-\u0642\u0628\u0644-\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-681\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/\u062f\u0648\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a-\u0641\u064a-\u0625\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627-\u0642\u0628\u0644-\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629.jpg 650w, https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/\u062f\u0648\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f-\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u064a-\u0641\u064a-\u0625\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627-\u0642\u0628\u0644-\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\" style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 15px 15px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 50px;\"><a name=\"abstract\"><\/a>\u0645\u0644\u062e\u0635:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma', 'Arial', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><bdo dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><br \/><\/bdo> Jew\u2019s trade role in the African continent faced several problematic issues notably the tendency to address it through mere ethnoreligious perceptions, which led, accordingly, to a wide range of contradicting and misleading conclusions regarding the Jewish presence in Africa throughout history. \n The paper aims to further some observations regarding the historical and geographical contexts of the Jewish role in African trade before the colonial era in order to provide a much clearer perspective on this role, instead of the well-established views of a notable segment of the Pan-Africanism movement which consider the whole \u201cJewish\u201d experience as a model for the African liberation thought and movements. The paper also aims to deconstruct, albeit partially, a number of the bases of the so-called African Knowledge and reconsider concepts such as Afrocentricity, double consciousness, and the African personality and their biased views of Jewish history in Africa.\n The paper concluded that the Jews\u2019 trade contributions in Africa were ultimately in line with the rules and aims of the global trade, including the slave trade. More specially, this view tended to disclose the double standard approach by a notable sector of Africanist thinkers and researchers when it comes to the slave trade, paying their whole attention to the role of Arab and Muslims while ignoring completely role of their Jewish counterparts in this inhuman   phenomenon, both directly or via the European entities since the sixteenth century at least. \nThe paper also concluded that the Jews were strong supporters of European economic exploitation since its early stages and beyond the colonial eras indeed as revealed later (notably in the Portuguese colonies in Africa). This fact is contradicting clearly with the \u201cAfrican\u201d view of the Jewish experience as an emancipatory model for the African peoples.  \n<\/span><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages: 22-33<\/p>","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[316,318,315,317],"issuem_issue":[294],"coauthors":[496],"class_list":["post-709","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-african-trade","tag-geographical-discoveries-of-africa","tag-jews","tag-pre-colonial-era","issuem_issue-issue-56-april-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/709\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}