
ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0198722028
- ISBN 13: 9780198722021
Overview
This book addresses the problem of the concept of 'tolerance' for understanding the significance of the dhimmi rules that governed and regulated non-Muslim permanent residents in Islamic lands. In doing so, it suggests that the Islamic legal treatment of non-Muslims is symptomatic of the more general challenge of governing a diverse polity. Far from being constitutive of an Islamic ethos, the dhimmi rules raise important thematic questions aboutRule of Law, governance, and how the pursuit of pluralism through the institutions of law and governance is a messy business.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Oup
- Authors: Anver M. Emon