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Informationen zum Autor Youssef Courbage is Research Fellow at the Institut d'Etudes Demographiques, Paris. Philippe Fargues is Director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale (CEDEJ-Cairo). Klappentext 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 Turkey! the book shows how Christianity and Judaism survived and! at times! even prospered in these regions. Vorwort 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 Turkey, the book shows how Christianity and Judaism survived and, at times, even prospered in these regions. Zusammenfassung 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 Turkey, the book shows how Christianity and Judaism survived and, at times, even prospered in these regions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?
