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In loth-century Umayyad Cordoba, for example, Jews and Christians were able to serve in high government office; they were officially viewed as ahl al-kitab, or "people of the book": those whose faith was based on a written document, such as the Bible or the Torah, and hence protected under Islamic law.
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What Islam Did for Europe
The conflict between Islam and the west can be traced back to a myth that inaccurately painted Muslims as the killers of a Christian hero. Now, scholars are beginning to reassess the fundamental role that Muslims played in shaping western civilisation. By Jason Webster What Islam did for Europe God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe (570-1215), David Levering Lewis, W W Norton, 384pp, £17.99
Until very recently, suggestions that western civil...See the full content of this document
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