The Public Role of Dhimmis during Abbasid Times

The Public Role of Dhimmis during Abbasid Times

This is a Journal Article from 2011, showing the part that non-Muslims - who were also known as Dhimmis - had to play under the Abbasid period. Dhimmis worked as viziers and secretaries, and also other parts of the state administration and government that actually put them in positions of political power. This article explains how this was allowed to happen during the period with Christians and Jews playing large parts in administration as well as showing the importance of this due to the nature of “state religion relations in early Islam”.

Mun’im Sirry

Sirry, Mun’im. “The Public Role of Dhimmis during Abbasid Times.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 74, no. 2 (2011).

University of London

English

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