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Imam al Ghazzali; Ihya al Ulum ud-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences) (d1111), Northeast Iran
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Taken from: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1902

(about dancing)
�..It is true that some dispositions turn aside from it, because it is seen for the most part in combination with vanity and play, and vanity and play are allowable, but only for the common people of the Zanj and Abyssinians and their like, while they are disliked in those who are notable people because they do not befit them.
Africans dancing; from a drawing by Olfert Dapper in 1686
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