Christians and Jews under Islam
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Christians and Jews under Islam
I.B. Tauris, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This work charts the political, sociological and demographic factors that have shaped the position of Christian and Jewish minorities under Islam in the past and today. Focusing on the Arab world and on Turkey, the authors show how Christianity and Judaism survived and, at times, even prospered in the region, thus modifying the view of Islam as an inevitably unbending and radical religion. They also demonstrate that the position of the minorities was badly affected in the wake of confrontations with the Christian West - at the time of the Crusades, after the first victories of the Spanish Reconquista, with the humiliations meted out to the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and North Africa, and once again with the creation of the state of Israel.
Table of Contents
- The installation of Islam in the Arab East
- the dechristianization of North Africa
- the crusades - a confrontation of two christianities
- the Christian recovery in the Ottoman Arab East
- from multinational empire to secular republic - the lost Christianity of Turkey
- Islam under Christian domination - the French empire in North Africa
- Israel and the Palestinian population explosion
- Arab Christianity in the 20th century - decline or eclipse?
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