Editorial: Ethnic dermatology

We, as Muslims, have a very clear concept about the origin of races as Allah Almighty in His Holy Book Quran says, O mankind, we have created you from a male and a female and made you races and tribes, that you may know one another; the noblest among you, in the sight of God, is the one most God fearing of you; God is knowing, Aware (Ch. 49, Verse 13). The concept of human races was first developed in the 18th century to help understand evolution and human variation. Anthropologists, based on genetic data, propose the single origin model of Homo sapiens evolution.