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 | | Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide by Bat Yeor, Miriam Kochan, David Littman ISBN-10: 9780838639436 ISBN-10: 0-8386-3943-7 ISBN-13: 9780838639436 ISBN-13: 978-0-8386-3943-6 Paperback 2001-12 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide Readers will find untruth by incomplete statements/accounts to such an extent that an anti-Islam agenda is obvious. Of little scholarly interest or impact without researching the whole story. (Like explaining Judaism as occupier ONLY under Joshua invading Canaan, or Saul losing his kingship for refusing to slaughter an indigenous king...)) Daniel C. Smith Richmond, VA | ||
Classic work about people subjugated under Islam I think Andrew Bostom's review should have convinced you to read this book, and you should also read Dr. Bostom's The Legacy of Jihad, an in-depth, well-researched, scholarly tome, my favorite book on the subject. Bat Ye'or is a formidable historian, and her book describes in detail what is basically hell on earth---the painful consequences of letting Muslims subjugate one's culture by foolishly ignoring ALL manifestations of jihad, which include not only armed warfare, but also demographic warfare (Muslims multiplying faster than infidels) and Da'wa (deceiving and confusing infidels by claiming that Islam is a religion of peace, etc.). Don't fall victim to Muslim Da'wa---be an informed infidel. Read this book, as well as Eurabia The Legacy of Jihad The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam Why I Am Not Muslim The alternative to successfully resisting Islam is not pleasant (to put it mildly), as you will learn from reading this excellent book. | ||
An eyopening account dispels myths It is a dominant theme of the literature on the Jewish Diaspora that Jews in Muslim lands were treated better than Jews among Christians. It is repeated like a mantra, every student of Jewish history or of Islamic studies must learn it and repeat it, until it becomes myth. This excellent study is one of the few to challenge this dominat view. Today academics encourage the propoganda that Islam is 'more tolerant' than Christianity. However here we are given a small taste of that 'tolerance'. Dhimmi is a word meaning 'protected'. However just as the Nazis created concentration camps to 'protect' the Jews the word itself can be used in many ways. This book analyzes the experience of Jews in Muslim lands. Some have accused this work of 'only' concentrating on the negative aspects of Muslim-Jewish relations, however this is just the point, a litany of works have focused on this subject in Europe, it time that the dust be taken from the truth about Islamic nations. Partly the problem rests on lack of sources and literature, this book begins to fill this essential gap. A second way to analyze the question of which Jews were 'better off' is to see the end result. If Muslim lands were 'better' to the Jews then why did the Jews of Europe become free and wealthy? Why were there more Jews in Europe than muslim lands despite persecution, endless forced conversion and murder due to claims that Jews created the black death? Jews numbered 12 million in Christian lands while they numbered only a million in Muslim ones in 1930. By 1945 the numbers were 6 million and 1 million. By 1967 the numbers were 8 million and 50,000. Seth J. Frantzman | ||
Dispelling a myth One of the great myths in regard to Islamic civilization is that it was egalitarian and respected fully the rights of Christians and Jews. In this work Bat- Yeor describes the status of 'dhimmitude' by which in Islamic society major minorities, as Christians and Jews were subject to legal and non- legal forms of discrimination. Bat-Yeor reveals that there is something in the historical attitude of Islam that makes it so difficult for it to recognize the real humanity of others, and give them an equal place in society. | ||
Apparently not much protection for protected people That most of Islam is today drastically hostile to Jews is obvious and is often explained as being the result of Zionism. But Bat Ye'or sets out to demolish the widely held idea that in CLASSICAL Islam the dhimmis (Protected People - Jews and Christians) had lived reasonably comfortably under Muslim rule in those centuries. She cites countless examples of humiliations that were deliberately inflicted on dhimmis, the uncertainty of their lives and of their possessions. I am sure that what she says about the maltreatment of Jews is correct and that is a valuable corrective to some received ideas. But because she concentrates entirely on this, and because her 528-page book finds no place for a discussion of the so-called "Golden Age" in Spain or of Jews and Jewish culture flourishing in ancient Iraq,in Egypt and in the early Ottoman centuries, it leaves an unfortunate impression of having been written with a partisan agenda. | ||