Christians and Jews Under Islam

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.

Product details

• Authors: COURBAGE, Youssef Courbage, Philippe Fargues
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781860642852
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-285-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Christentum, Islam, Judentum, Türkei, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen