Conversion to Islam among Yemenite Jews under Zaydi rule

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כותר Conversion to Islam among Yemenite Jews under Zaydi rule : the positions of Zaydi law, the Imam, and Muslim society.
מקור/בעלים The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism
from Sacred Texts to Solemn History. Edited by Andrew G. Bostom. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008
מתוך The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism (2008) 577-588
תקציר/הערה The official policy of the Zaydi rulers in Yemen (897-1962) accorded with Islamic law that no one must be forced to adopt Islam. Zayda is the Shi'ite sect closest to Sunni orthodoxy. Although conversion was not forced upon the Jews (except for the singular Zaydi law that Jewish orphans must be raised as Muslims), certain Imams and Muslim society throughout the centuries applied various strategies of pressure to convert. Describes territorial restrictions - parts of the Arabian Peninsula were declared holy to Islam and no Jews could live there. Conversion to Islam could free any Jew accused of a crime. In times of famine, conversion assured the granting of food from storehouses open only to Muslims. Social pressure was the most successful means of conversion: enticement, especially of children and young girls
religious argument (if a Jew was caught denigrating Islam his protected status was annulled and he had to choose between conversion or death)
and discriminatory legislation which grew more and more severe. Concludes that Jews in Yemen lived under constant pressure to convert and that many Jews in fact converted although Jewish sources tried to hide that fact. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In Hebrew:
"פעמים" 42 (תשן) 105-126
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