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Islam and Dhimmitude

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Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide
AuthorBat Ye'or
TranslatorMiriam Kochan, David Littman
LanguageFrench
SubjectDhimmis (Islamic law), Islamic Empire—Ethnic relations, Islamic countries—Ethnic relations[1]
PublisherFairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date
2001
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages528p.
ISBN978-0838639436
OCLC47054791
909/.09767
LC ClassDS36.9.D47 B395 2002

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide is a book by Bat Ye'or.

Reception

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Norman A. Stillman, Professor of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma, in his review for Israel Studies Forum, says

"For Bat Ye'or dhimmitude is itself a civilisation, which she defines as "a comprehensive system of laws, traditions and culture evolving in duration according to specific and structural parameters, which maintain its homogeneity, its behavioural patterns and their transmission." Dhimmitude she argues is not only a civilisation, but it is the mindset and behaviour patterns of the non-Muslim people's themselves. ... As with her previous books, this one marshals a great deal of evidence, and has some very valid points to make, but again, as with her former efforts, the material is so one-sidedly selective, so oversimplified, and her rhetoric so hyperbolic and bathetic that whatever merits there are in her arguments are thoroughly overshadowed by the tendentiousness of the polemics."[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2002. LCCN 2001040101.
  2. ^ Stillman, Norman A (2002). "Reviewed work: Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, Bat Ye'or, Miriam Kochan, David Littman". Israel Studies Forum. 18 (1): 117–119. JSTOR 41804912.

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