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Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society
By
Robert Hoyland, St Johns College, Oxford, UK
Description
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.
Contents
Introduction;
Religious communities in late Sasanian and early Muslim Iraq, Michael
G. Morony; Dhimmah in Qur’an and Hadith, Mahmoud Ayoub; The
legislative autonomy of Christians in the Islamic world, Néophyte
Edelby; How Dhimmis were judged in the Islamic world, Antoine Fattal;
Problems of differentiation between Muslims and non-Muslims:
re-reading the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Ordinances of \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Umar\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' (Al-Shurut al-’umariyya),
Albrecht Noth; \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Do not assimilate yourselves...\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' La tashabbahu...,
M.J. Kister; Minority selfrule and government control in Islam, S.D.
Goitein; Comparative religion in the apologetics of the first
Christian Arabic theologians, Sidney H. Griffith; Jewish polemics
against Islam and Christianity in the light of Judaeo-Arabic texts,
Sarah Stroumsa; Muslim studies of other religions: the medieval
period, Jacques Waardenburg; Christian polemic and the formation of
Islamic dogma, C.H. Becker; Socio-economic history and Islamic
studies: problems of bias in the adaptation of the indigenous
population to Islam, Claude Cahen; Mawlas: freed slaves and converts
in early Islam, Daniel Pipes; Conversion in early Islamic Egypt: the
economic factor, Gladys Frantz-Murphy; Questions concerning the
Mazdaeans of Muslim Iran, Jean de Menasce; General index.
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