Tolerance and Coercion in Islam - Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Yohanan Friedmann is Max Shloessinger Professor of Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and its Medieval Background (2002). Klappentext Friedmann's study sheds light on medieval attitudes to religious tolerance. Zusammenfassung Yohanan Friedmann uses the Qur'anic and classical sources to explain Islamic attittudes to interfaith relations. While they were usually tolerant! coercion was employed occasionally against marginal elements. Friedmann's erudite study sheds light not only on medieval attitudes! but also on the approach of some radical Islamic movements today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Religious diversity and hierarchy of religions; 2. Classification of unbelievers; 3. Is there no compulsion in religion?; 4. Apostasy; 5. Interfaith marriages; 6. Concluding observations; Selected bibliography; Indexes.

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• Authors: Yohanan Friedmann, Yohanan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem Friedmann
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521026994
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02699-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions