Islam and Dhimmitude

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

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

Reception

Mordechai Nisan from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reviews the book as

... an exceptionally relevant scholarly study of Islam in triumphant combat against non-Muslims. Islam and Dhimmitude amasses compelling evidence and employs powerful argumentation to expose and explain dhimmitude—the author's neologism. With impressive erudition and precision—and personal courage— Bat Ye'or here presents both her largest canvas and her most profound analysis of this condition. She challenges powerful misconceptions and establishes a new framework for understanding the inter-relations of the three religious civilizations and peoples.[2]

Michael Sells, John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the University of Chicago, said that "by obscuring the existence of pre-Christian and other old, non-Christian communities in Europe as well as the reason for their disappearance in other areas of Europe, Bat Ye’or constructs an invidious comparison between the allegedly humane Europe of Christian and Enlightenment values and the ever present persecution within Islam. Whenever the possibility is raised of actually comparing circumstances of non-Christians in Europe to non-Muslims under Islamic governance in a careful, thoughtful manner, Bat Ye’or forecloses such comparison."[3]

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. The dhimmi mentalite is marked by sectarian isolationism, economic rivelry with other dhimmis and a mutual antipathy."[4]

Notes
  1. http://lccn.loc.gov/2001040101
  2. [https://www.meforum.org/1483/islam-and-dhimmitude Reviewed by Mordechai Nisan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in MEQ]
  3. Qureshi, Emran & Sells, Michael A. The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. Columbia University Press, 2003, p. 364. ISBN 0-231-12667-0
  4. 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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