Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition
Since the beginning of its history, Islam has encountered other religious communities both in Arabia and in the territories conquered during its expansion. The most distinctive characteristic of these encounters was that Muslims faced other religions from the position of a ruling power. They were, therefore, able to determine the nature of that relationship in accordance with their world-view and beliefs. Yohanan Friedmann's original and erudite study examines questions of religious tolerance...
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Friedmann's study sheds light on medieval attitudes to religious tolerance.
PrefaceIntroduction11Religious diversity and hierarchy of religions132Classification of unbelievers543Is there no compulsion in religion?874Apostasy1215Interfaith marriages1606Concluding observations194Selected Bibliography200General Index215Index of Qur'anic verses231Index of prophetic traditions233
