Category: History
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Official Vatican Position On Muslims
Asif Iqbal The following are scans from the offical Catholic cathechism on the position of the Church towards Muslims.
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Persecution of Muslims By Christians
It is unfortunate that Islam is continuously being purported to be a religion of violence by the missionaries when the reality is very much the opposite. What the majority of Christians are probably unaware is of the violence of their brethren against other religions, most particularly the Muslims, because it is Islam which has always…
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Theophanes On The Medieval Jewish Acceptance of Muhammad As The Awaited Messiah
Asif Iqbal presents a commentary of an extract from the Christian historian Theophanes’ account of a group of Jews accepting the Prophet Muhammad as their awaited Messiah.
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“People of The Book” and The Muslims
Emin Ergin discusses the historical relations between Muslims and the “People of the Book”, and provides evidence on how they are to be treated.
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Jizya in Islam
Monqiz As-Saqqar sheds light on the origins of jizya, its pre-Islamic usage and how it was practised in previous civilisations before the rise of Islam and contrasts it with the Islamic way of imposing jizya.
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Islam and Other Religions
Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi lays the groundwork towards understanding the Islamic theory of meta-religion, highlights its important aspects and discusses Islam’s historical treatment of non-Muslims.