CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS NON MUSLIMS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC EMPIRE 2012 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: NON-MUSLIMS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC EMPIRE: FROM

SURRENDER TO COEXISTENCE (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN

ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION)

PUBLISHER: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/7VfNOR RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.08

ISBN: 9781107004337 STORE DATE: 2012

SAVED.MONEY: 90 DOLLAR DISKCOUNT: 01 x 05MB

AUTHOR: MILKA LEVY-RUBIN



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The Muslim conquest of the East in the seventh century entailed

the subjugation of Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others

Although much has been written about the status of non-Muslims in

the Islamic empire, no previous works have examined how the rules

applying to minorities were formulated. Milka Levy-Rubin's

remarkable book traces the emergence of these regulations from

the first surrender agreements in the immediate aftermath of

conquest to the formation of the canonic document called the Pact

of 'Umar, which was formalized under the early 'Abbasids, in the

first half of the ninth century. What the study reveals is that

the conquered peoples themselves played a major role in the

creation of these policies, and that these were based on

long-standing traditions, customs, and institutions from earlier

pre-Islamic cultures that originated in the worlds of both the

conquerors and the conquered. In its connections to Roman

Byzantine, and Sasanian traditions, the book will appeal to

historians of Europe as well as Arabia and Persia