“A rather small genre”: Arabic works against non-Muslim state officials
Muslim authors composed a number of polemics against the employment of non-Muslim state officials in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Egypt and Syria. This essay argues that the majority of these works drew directly or indirectly on a previously unremarked sixth/twelfth century common source. Alth...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2016
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Der Islam
Year: 2016, Volume: 93, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-169 |
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| Summary: | Muslim authors composed a number of polemics against the employment of non-Muslim state officials in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Egypt and Syria. This essay argues that the majority of these works drew directly or indirectly on a previously unremarked sixth/twelfth century common source. Although the common source cannot yet be securely identified, its existence and influence have significant implications for historians’ understanding of interreligious tensions in late medieval Egypt and Syria and for the Nachleben of innovative literary compositions in this period. Specifically, the detection of this source stretches accepted chronologies of the late-medieval surge of anti-dhimmī sentiment in the Islamic Middle East decades earlier and raises the question of literary works’ role in catalyzing religious violence and exclusion. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-0928 |
| Contains: | In: Der Islam
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/islam-2016-0006 |