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The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam (Paperback)

by Bat Ye'or (Author), D. Maisel (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 444 pages
  • Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.; Rev Exp edition (1 April 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0838632629
  • ISBN-13: 978-0838632628
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 14.8 x 2.6 cm
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hard, brutal reading., 27 Jun 2005
By doctor_jeep (Oxford UK) - See all my reviews
This is not a book which makes pleasant reading for the multiculturalist. In point of fact it doesn't make pleasant reading at all. What it does do is teach some hard lessons about the historical record of Islam in dealing with other faiths (and, it must be said, of Ecclesiastical Christianity in dealing with the Jewish nation).
Although it must not be seen as a definitive text on Islamic theology - and indeed does not purport to be - it does also establish the context for the ongoing Kulturkampf in the Middle East.
It also goes a long way out of its path to provide fair consideration and historical context to the lessons it teaches.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing Account Of Racial/Religious Prejudice., 19 Sep 2003
By M. D Roberts (Gwent, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This is a disturbing book which reveals what is described as a socially acceptable Islamic conduct against peoples who were classed as "inferior".

For the most part the book describes these peoples as Jews and Christians who were classed as "dhimmi". "Dhimmitude" being further elaborated as the religious, cultural, and political fate of non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, usually when their lands have been subject to Islamic conquest.

Where the politicisation/allegations of racial prejudice, segregation, apartheid and indeed genocide have become quite common-place in the Middle East against the Jewish state, a book such as this is very timely in showing another side to the story. A book that reveals the painful, disturbing policy of prejudice, racial hatred and segregation of countless people who were classed as "inferior"on the basis of their religion alone.

Many examples are referred to in this study and many issues are discussed. The book draws a number of distinctions drawn and prejudices applied upon Jews and Christians who refused to accept and bow to Islam. Just by way of a single example, page 56 of this study deals with the "Invalidity of the Dhimmi's Oath".

With legal cases being dealt with under Quranic law, every case involving a Muslim and a dhimmi received a "peculiar" treatment in that a dhimmi was forbidden to give evidence against a Muslim. The Dhimmi's oath being deemed unacceptable in an Islamic court, which made it virtually impossible for any Muslim opponent to be condemned. To further any defence, the book describes that the dhimmi would be obliged to "purchase" Muslim witnesses, often at great expense.

This refusal of Muslim religious courts to accept such testimony of the dhimmi being based on hadiths which maintained that the infidels were of a "perverse and mendacious character because they deliberately persisted in denying the superiority of Islam". The same law preventing any Muslim from being put to death on account of an infidel.

This principle alone is further elaborated in this book with the example of the frequent accusations directed at Jews and Christians of having "blasphemed" the Prophet or Islam, an offence punishable by death. In such a case, the dhimmi was clearly in no position to contradict the testimony of a Muslim making the accusation and could therefore only save his life by conversion to Islam. (Although some exceptions have been recorded, this was the abiding principle nearly always adhered to.)

This is a classic study of this subject and it is not a "light" read, but a subject which demands attention. Thank you.

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