Bat Ye'or
ISLAM AND DHIMMITUDE.
Where Civilizations Collide

In this new study of the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule (the dhimmis), Bat Yeor examines various religious and historical sources, using the new term dhimmitude to describe their common history and legal status.

Some of these laws derive from the special status institutionalized by the Church Fathers for Jews; once Islamized, these laws were incorporated into Muslim jurisprudence applicable for Christians and Jews alike.

Dhimmitude is thus discussed from the perspective of Muslim theology, and also in regard to divergent Christian attitudes to Jews and Zionism.

Bat Yeor, author of three powerful books on Jews and Christians under Islam, has pioneered a new field of research, which she calls the civilization of dhimmitude. She analyzes the impact of Westernization on the Muslim world and suggests how it affects the concept of dhimmitude today.
The modern period up until 2000 is broadly covered, including an examination of the revival of jihad ideology and the return of dhimmitude for Christians living under the sharia. Bat Yeor describes their struggle against dhimmitude within the context of international rivalries. She examines the possibility of a dhimmitude of the West, maintaining that reconciliation between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam cannot succeed without an assessment of jihad and dhimmitude.

This is all the more essential since the terrorist jihad-war struck America on 11 September 2001.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses (2002)
EMAIL:aup440@aol.com

(Publication date: 30 November 2001)

ISBN 0-8386-3942-9 ($60.00 cloth);
0-8386-3943-7 ($19.95 paper). 528 pages.
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