Islam and Dhimitude
Subtitle: Where Civilizations Collide
Contributors: Miriam Kochan (Translator); David Littman (Translator)
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780838639429
Subjects: History; Sociology, Social Studies; Islamic countries; Christianity - General; History - General History; Islamic Empire; History: World; ASIA; World - General; Asia - General; Islam - General; Dhimmis; Ethnic relations
Description: "In this study of the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule (the dhimmis), Bat Ye'or examines various religious and historical sources, using the new term "dhimmitude" to describe their common history and legal status. Some of these laws derive from the special status institutionalized by the Church Fathers for Jews; once Islamized, these laws were incorporated into Muslim jurisprudence applicable for Christians and Jews alike.

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