Focusing on the Arab World and Turkey, the authors show how Christian and Jewish minorities survived and even prospered under Islam thus modifying the view of Islam as dogmatic and unbending. They demonstrate that the decline of these minorities occurred in the wake of confrontation with the Christian West, the Crusades, the Spanish Reconquista, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa and the Balkans as a result of colonialism and the First World War, and the creation of the state of Israel.
| ISBN: | 9781788310390 |
| Publication date: | 26th January 2018 |
| Author: | Youssef Courbage, Philippe Fargues |
| Publisher: | I.B. Tauris an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Islam Social groups: religious groups and communities Interfaith relations Christianity Judaism Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict |