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By Bat Ye’or
In this research, Bat Ye’or offers an research of the dogma and methods of jihad, providing an unlimited landscape of the historical past of the Jews and Christians lower than the guideline of Islam. A pioneer in a virgin box of analysis for which she has coined the time period “dhimmitude,” the writer has integrated a documentary part illuminating the method of japanese Christianity’s Islamization. In waves of Islamic growth, the Christian and Jewish populations of the Mediterranean areas and Mesopotamia, who had constructed the main prestigious civilizations, have been conquered through jihad. hundreds of thousands of Christians from Spain, Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Armenia; Latins and Slavs from southern and critical Europe; in addition to Jews, have been henceforth ruled via the shari’a (Islamic law). an information of this old historical past is key so one can comprehend modern occasions.
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Gradually, relationships with non-Muslims were determined in the course of the ambushes, battles, strategems, and truces, which formed the holy war's body of tactics, required to secure the expansion of Islam. As the life of Muhammad has already been the subject of a large number of studies, it is unnecessary to go over it again. Suffice it to note that the policy the Arab prophet adopted toward the Jews of Medina and the Jews and Christians of the oasis of the Hijaz determined his successors' policy towards the native Jewish and Christian inhabitants of territories conquered subsequently.
In 953-54, he burned down the Melitene region and took captives. "20 In 957, Sayf al-Dawla burned down the towns of Cappadocia, the Hisn Ziyad (Harput) region in Armenia, enslaving women and children. The emigration of the Turkoman nomads renewed the jihad. In the eleventh century, "The empire of the Turks had been extended to Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine [. "21 For centuries after its conquest in 712, Spain became the terrain par excellence for the jihad in the West of the dar al-islam. Waves of Muslim, Arab, and Berber immigrants appropriated fiefs for themselves which continued to be cultivated by the native inhabitants, who were tolerated as tributaries or slaves, according to the conditions of the conquest.
These conflicts worsened when the emperor Heraclius (610-41), at the instigation of 1: The Pre-Islamic Orient 37 the bishop of Jerusalem, decreed the conversion of the Jews (632). This measure unleashed a wave of cruelty and killing throughout his empire, thereby increasing hostility to Byzantine rule. Before the Arab offensive, the power struggle in Constantinople between the emperor Phocas (602-10) and his general Heraclius had provoked mutiny in the administration and among the Greek troops stationed in Egypt.