Dhimmis And Others

Author : Uri Rubin,David Wasserstein
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1575060264

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Dhimmis and Others by Uri Rubin,David Wasserstein Pdf

Islam has always had ambivalent relations with Judaism and Christianity, as also with Jews and Christians. The awkwardness of their character has been accentuated by the creation and perpetuation, on all sides, of partial and ill-intentioned images during the middle ages and by political developments in the modern period. Since the beginning of serious modern study of Islam in the west, these relations have found an important place in scholars' interest, partly because many of those in the west who have studied Islam have been Jews, with a natural attraction to an interest in those topics which affected Jews and other minorities in the Islamic environment. In this volume, we have tried to assemble a collection of papers which reflect something of the diversity of the problems offered by this range of relations. We have also attempted to reflect, in the variety of the papers and the topics discussed in them, the rich variety of approach adopted by scholars over the last century and a half of such study. Israel Oriental Studies has ceased publication with volume 20.

Author : Anver M. Emon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191637742

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Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law by Anver M. Emon Pdf

The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one. Polemicists are certain that Islam is not a tolerant religion. As evidence they point to the rules governing the treatment of non-Muslim permanent residents in Muslim lands, namely the dhimmi rules that are at the center of this study. These rules, when read in isolation, are certainly discriminatory in nature. They legitimate discriminatory treatment on grounds of what could be said to be religious faith and religious difference. The dhimmi rules are often invoked as proof-positive of the inherent intolerance of the Islamic faith (and thereby of any believing Muslim) toward the non-Muslim. This book addresses the problem of the concept of 'tolerance' for understanding the significance of the dhimmi rules that governed and regulated non-Muslim permanent residents in Islamic lands. In doing so, it suggests that the Islamic legal treatment of non-Muslims is symptomatic of the more general challenge of governing a diverse polity. Far from being constitutive of an Islamic ethos, the dhimmi rules raise important thematic questions about Rule of Law, governance, and how the pursuit of pluralism through the institutions of law and governance is a messy business. As argued throughout this book, an inescapable, and all-too-often painful, bottom line in the pursuit of pluralism is that it requires impositions and limitations on freedoms that are considered central and fundamental to an individual's well-being, but which must be limited for some people in some circumstances for reasons extending well beyond the claims of a given individual. A comparison to recent cases from the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Court of Human Rights reveals that however different and distant premodern Islamic and modern democratic societies may be in terms of time, space, and values, legal systems face similar challenges when governing a populace in which minority and majority groups diverge on the meaning and implication of values deemed fundamental to a particular polity.

Author : Bat Yeʼor
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838632338

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The Dhimmi by Bat Yeʼor Pdf

Examines the treatment of non-Arab people under the rule of the Muslims and collects historical documents related to this subject

Author : Bat Yeʼor
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0838639429

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Islam and Dhimmitude by Bat Yeʼor Pdf

Dhimmitude is thus discussed from the perspective of Muslim theory, and also in regard to divergent Christian attitudes to Jews and Zionism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bat Yeʼor
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780838636886

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The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam by Bat Yeʼor Pdf

In two waves of Islamic expansion the Christian and Jewish populations of the Mediterranean regions and Mesopotamia, who had developed the most prestigious civilizations of the time, were conquered by jihad. Millions of Christians from Spain, Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Armenia; Latins and Slavs from southern and central Europe; as well as Jews were henceforth governed by the shari'a (Islamic law).

Author : Antonia Bosanquet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004437968

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Minding their Place by Antonia Bosanquet Pdf

In Minding Their Place Antonia Bosanquet analyses the relevance of space to Ibn al-Qayyim’s (d. 751/1350) rulings about non-Muslim subjects in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma. She shows how his definition of their social role develops his theological view of inter-religious relations.

Author : Mark Durie,Bat Ye'or
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0980722306

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The Third Choice by Mark Durie,Bat Ye'or Pdf

The Third Choice provides a compelling introduction to Islam on the basis of its primary sources, the Quran and the life of Muhammad. Topics covered include the sharia; interpretation of the Quran; abrogation; women's rights (including female genital mutilation); lawful deception (taqiyya); Muhammad's responses to opposition; Islamic antisemitism; religious freedom; and prospects for reforming Islam. After this critical introduction of Islam, there follows an explanation and critique of Islam's policy for non-Muslims living under Islamic conditions. The doctrine of the three choices (conversion, the sword, or the dhimma pact of surrender to Islam) is explained, including an analysis of the meaning of tribute payments (jizya) made by non-Muslims (dhimmis) to their Muslim conquerors. Durie describes the impact of dhimmitude on the human rights of non-Muslims in Islamic contexts around the world today, in the light of global Islamic resurgence and advancing Islamization, including pressure being exerted through the United Nations for states to conform to sharia restrictions on freedom of speech. The worldview of dhimmitude, Durie argues, offers indispensable keys for understanding current trends in global politics, including the widening impact of sharia revival, deterioration of human rights in Islamic societies, jihad terrorism, recurring patterns of Western appeasement, interfaith dialogue initiatives, and the increasingly fraught relationship between migrant Muslim communities in the West and their host societies.

Author : Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769372

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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey Pdf

This book traces the history of conflict and contact between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East prior to 1914.

Author : Robert Hoyland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351916189

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Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society by Robert Hoyland Pdf

The interaction between Muslims and the other religious denominations of the Middle East in the period 620-1020 is the subject of this volume. This is arguably the single most important issue in the history of the early Islamic Middle East, since the Muslims were initially a minority in the lands that they had conquered and so had to reach some modus vivendi with the various religious communities in their realm. Fifteen articles by leading scholars shed light on this process from a number of different perspectives: historical, conceptual, legal, social and theological. An introduction both gives an overview and examines possibilities for future research. The period under study is demarcated at one end by the Prophet Muhammed (d. 632) who, as the Qur’an tells us, had to deal with Jews, Christians and polytheists. At the other end lies the great legal/political thinker Manardi (d. ca. 1020), by whose time the Middle East had become substantially Islamicised.

Author : Jessica Coope
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130283

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The Most Noble of People by Jessica Coope Pdf

Negotiates ethnic, religious, and gender identity amid turbulent social change in medieval Islamic Spain

Author : Charles L. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190654344

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The Abrahamic Religions: a Very Short Introduction by Charles L. Cohen Pdf

In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and his Covenant, Abraham would become the patriarch of three of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Connected by their mutual--if differentiated--veneration of the One God proclaimed by Abraham, these traditions share much beyond their origins in the ancient Israel of the Old Testament. This Very Short Introduction explores the intertwined histories of these monotheistic religions, from the emergence of Christianity and Islam to the violence of the Crusades and the cultural exchanges of al-Andalus. Each religion continues to be shaped by this history but has also reacted to the forces of modernity and politics. Movements such as the Reformation and that led by seventh-century Kharijites have emerged, intentioned to reform or restore traditional religious practice but quite different in their goals and effects. Relationships with states, among them Israel and Saudi Arabia, have also figured importantly in their development. The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction brings these traditions together into a common narrative, lending much needed context to the story of Abraham and his descendants. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : L. Ali Khan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748675944

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Contemporary Ijtihad by L. Ali Khan Pdf

The book examines the challenges and limits of contemporary ijtihad in the context of diverse needs of Muslim cultures and communities living in Muslim and non-Muslim nations and continents, including Europe and North America.

Author : Andrew G. Bostom
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616146672

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Sharia Versus Freedom by Andrew G. Bostom Pdf

Author Andrew G. Bostom expands upon his two previous groundbreaking compendia, The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, with this collection of his own recent essays on Sharia - Islamic law. The book elucidates, unapologetically, Sharia's defining Islamic religious principles and the consequences of its application across space and time, focusing upon contemporary illustrations. A wealth of unambiguous evidence is marshaled, distilled, and analyzed, including: objective, erudite studies of Sharia by leading scholars of Islam; the acknowledgment of Sharia's global "resurgence," even by contemporary academic apologists for Islam; an abundance of recent polling data from Muslim nations and Muslim immigrant communities in the West confirming the ongoing, widespread adherence to Sharia's tenets; the plaintive warnings and admonitions of contemporary Muslim intellectuals - freethinkers and believers, alike - about the incompatibility of Sharia with modern, Western-derived conceptions of universal human rights; and the overt promulgation by authoritative, mainstream international and North American Islamic religious and political organizations of traditional, Sharia-based Muslim legal systems as an integrated whole (i.e., extending well beyond mere "family-law aspects" of Sharia). Johannes J. G. Jansen, Professor for Contemporary Islamic Thought Emeritus at Utrecht University, says this book "will prove sobering to even staunch optimists."

Author : Jacques Waardenburg,Jean Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195104721

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Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions by Jacques Waardenburg,Jean Jacques Waardenburg Pdf

Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions. The essays collected here examine the many texts that have come down to us about these cultures and their religions, from Muslim theologians and jurists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Israel Oriental Studies, 3 by Anonim Pdf