TY - BOOK ID - 49293704 TI - Religious pluralism and Islamic law : Dhimmīs and others in the empire of law PY - 2012 SN - 0191743399 1283576651 9786613889102 0191637734 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Islamic law. KW - Religious pluralism KW - Dhimmis (Islamic law) KW - Islam. KW - Dhimmis KW - Non-Muslims (Islamic law) KW - Islamic law KW - Pluralism (Religion) KW - Pluralism KW - Religion KW - Religions KW - Civil law (Islamic law) KW - Law, Arab KW - Law, Islamic KW - Law in the Qurʼan KW - Sharia (Islamic law) KW - Shariʻah (Islamic law) KW - Law, Oriental KW - Law, Semitic KW - Islamic countries KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Muslim countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49293704 AB - The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one. Polemicists are certain that Islam is not a tolerant religion. As evidence they point to the rules governing the treatment of non-Muslim permanent residents in Muslim lands, namely the dhimmi rules that are at the center of this study. These rules, when read in isolation, are certainly discriminatory in nature. They legitimate discriminatory treatment on grounds of what could be said to be religious faith and religiousdifference. The dhimmi rules are often invoked as proof-positive of the inherent intolerance of the Islamic faith (and there ER -