Unknown past : Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim star of Egypt / Hanan Hammad.
Hanan Hammad author
Book| Title |
Persecutions and conversion to Islam in eleventh-century Egypt. |
|---|---|
| Original Library/publisher |
The Medieval Levant Studies in Memory of Eliyahu Ashtor. Ed. by B.Z. Kedar and A.L. Udovitch. Haifa: University of Haifa, Gustav Heinemann Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 1988 |
| Host Item |
The Medieval Levant (NLI)990011276030205171 (1988) 73-91 |
| Description |
Examines the significance of conversions to Islam for the Islamization of medieval Egypt. Mass conversions occurred during the 11th century persecution of dhimmis in the reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (996-1021). The persecutions reached a peak in 1012-13. Dhimmis (Christians and Jews) were forced to wear distinctive dress, expelled from their quarters, harassed by mobs, and their community life was threatened due to confiscation of their economic base, the "awqaf" (pious endowments). Synagogues were destroyed or converted to mosques. The cumulative effect was conversion to Islam, mainly in Cairo. The extent of Jewish conversion is not known. From 1020 on, there was a reversal of policy dhimmis were permitted to return to their religion and permission was granted to rebuild churches and synagogues which had not been converted to mosques. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990000320890705171 |
| Links |
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