UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jizya, Toleration, Shia Islam
4 Apr 2016
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Islam had the same burst of expansion, prosperity, and the rest of the. The peoples of islam remained politically fractured even with there common religious beliefs. The dram of trying to unify and centralize the rule of an islamic state need in 1258 when the mongols sacked baghdad. Islam responded to instability by undergoing major changes. Commercials networks carried the word of the quran. World acquired another core region centered in what is now called the. Long distance merchants were most responsible for interfering islamic worlds. Long distance trade surged because an advanced legal framework supported it. Muslim rulers and clerics bad to deal with large non muslim populations. Muslim rulers granted non muslims religious toleration is they followed. Non muslims had i pay a special toleration tax called the jizya. Non muslims had to be properly deferential to muslim rulers. Regulations shaped the dhimma system, which granted protection to religious minorities.
