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

by Yohanan Friedmann

Book Overview

Since the beginning of its history, Islam has encountered other religious communities both in Arabia and in the territories conquered during its expansion. Muslims faced other religions from the position of a ruling power and were therefore able to determine the nature of that relationship in accordance with their world-view and beliefs. Yohanan Friedmann's original and erudite study examines questions of religious tolerance as they appear in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521026997
• ISBN13: 9780521026994
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"