Christianity Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“Since the rise of Islam, Jews had lived as a tolerated minority, or dhimmi, a status granted to Jews and Christians because they were…

— Matti Friedman

“In principle, all Islamic polities were (and are) required by Quranic injunction not to harm the dhimmi, to tolerate the Christians and Jews living…

— Maria Rosa Menocal

“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists,…

— Shlomo Sand

“Only the Jews, of all the nations under Roman rule, had won the right to separate their political obligations from religious ones, to obey…

— Elaine Pagels

“In both Muslim and Christian lands during the 1300s and 1400s, Jews were considered outsiders no matter how long they and their families had…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Bernard Lewis, a lifelong student of Jews and Islam and himself a Jew, reflected on the fourteen centuries of Jewish life under Islamic rule,…

— Martin Gilbert

“Being a holy people included seeking justice. The Sabbath and Jubilee Year practices gave everyone equal rights, freedom, and second chances. Slaves would be…

— Doris Rikkers

“It has been argued that the hostility of the Arabian Jewish tribes to Mohammed was due to his alliances with dissenting Jewish sects.8 Our…

— Harry Freedman

“During the era of the rightly-guided Khaleefahs, the Muslim Nation was built on the principle of justice. This is mainly why Muslims were so…

— Abdul Malik Mujahid

“all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same…

— Karen Armstrong

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood…

— Voltaire

“belief, expressed in such diverse and fascinating ways, in the One who had placed them there: the Christians, the Jews, the Mohammedans, and a…

— William Brinkley