Contents



List of  Abbreviations
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction

  1.  THE ORIENT ON THE EVE OF ISLAM
       The Seventh Century Religious Context
       The Birth of the Islamic State
       Conquests
      Jihad
               Dogma
               Institutions
               Jihad in History

  2.  POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF DHIMMITUDE
       The Political Domain
               Protection
                Disarming
                Deportations
                Territorial Dispossession
                Demography
                Rebellions
        The Economic Domain
               Kharaj
                Jizya
                Additional Taxes
        The Legal domain
        Protection-Ransom Relationship

  3.   RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DHIMMITUDE
        Religion
              Worship
               Conversion
        Degradation
              Common  Elements
                    Clothing
                    Mounts
                    Behavior toward dhimmis
                   Dwelling places and traveling
                    Corvées
              Regional Elements
      Dhimmi Behavior
      Dhimmitude and Inter-Church Rivalry
      Christian Anti-Judaism and Dhimmitude

 4.  MODERNITY:  A TIME OF HOPE AND A TIME OF ASHES
      Political and Theological Rivalry in Europe and the 1840
           Damascus Blood Libel
          Political Conflicts
           Theological Conflicts
      French and Vatican Arab Policy: the anti-Jewish Fulcrum
      The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

 5.  THE MANDATE PERIOD (1921-1956)
      Christian Nationalisms
            Armenian
            Nestorian and Chaldean Assyrians
            Syrian-Lebanese
       Jewish Nationalism:  Zionism
        The Inter-War Period
        Ambiguous Security
        Muslim-Christian Anti-Zionism

 6.   FROM THE JEWISH EXODUS TO THE CHRISTIAN EXODUS
      After Saturday Comes Sunday
       The Christian Struggle Against Dhimmitude
             Egypt
              Lebanon
        From the Millet to Citizenship

 7.  JIHAD AND DHIMMA:  MODERN FORMULATIONS
       The Themes
             The Islamist Conception of the Universe and the Origin of Islam
        Repressed History
       Jihad in Southern Sudan
       Jihad against Israel
              The Muslim Strand
               The Muslim-Christian Strand
                        Judeophobia
                        Anti-Zionism
                        Manipulation and Dhimmitude
        From Third-Worldism to Islamism
        The Anti-Zionist, Missionary, and Third-Worldist Movement

 8.   THE RETURN OF DHIMMITUDE
        Countries Applying the Shari'a
             Saudi Arabia
              Iran
              Sudan
              Pakistan
        Countries Adapting the Shari'a
             Egypt
              Iraq
              Palestinian Administration
        Causes of the Christian Exodus
        The Tactics Adopted
              The Tactics of Dhimmitude
                     Silence
                     Testimony Prohibited
                     The Indictment of Scapegoats
               The Tactics of Freedom
                     The Copts
                     The Lebanese Christians
                     The Sudanese Christians and Animists
                     The Pakistani Christians
         The Consensus of Silence
         Disarray:  Reality Conflicting with Ideology
               A Ray of Hope?

 9.     EXTENSION OF INTER-DHIMMI CONFLICTS IN THE MODERN PERIOD
         The Political Domain:  Christian Dhimmitude and Anti-Zionism
         The Theological Domain:  Redemptive  Palestine versus Israel's Iniquity
         The Internationalization of Hate

10.    THE POLITICS OF DHIMMITUDE IN EUROPE
          The Islamic Components of Dhimmitude
                  The Perfection of Jihad
                   The Perfection of the Shari'a
                   The Islamic Supersessionism
           European Policies of Dhimmitude
                  The European-Dhimmi Current:  the Inculpation of Israel and the West
                   Christian Eulogy of Jihad and Dhimma
                   Historical Negationism and the Andalusian Myth
                   The Founding Myths of Palestinianism
                   The Muslim-Christian Supersessionist Trend
            The Incrimination of the West and its Manipulation
            The Islamization of Western Culture
            Symptoms of Dhimmitude in  the West
            Consequences of the Dogma of Victimization
            Euro-American Rivalries and Islam
 

11.       CONCLUSION
            Historical Assessment:  Political Prejudices and Interests
            The Policy of European States toward Dhimmis
            Dhimmitude and Christian Service to the Umma
            Arab Nationalism and the Minority Syndrome
            Old Teachings in New Bottles
            The Armenian Genocide and the Shoah
             Inter-Religious Dialogue and Dhimmitude
                   Judeo-Christian  Rapprochement and Anti-Zionism
                   The Dialogue with Islam
            The Third Millenium and the Continuum of History
 

Appendix 1:  Arab Feuds in Nineteenth-Century Palestine
Appendix 2:  Destruction of the Jewish Quarter of Shiraz (Iran) in 1910
Appendix 3:  S.O.S. Lebanon (1945): A Homeland for the Christians in the Near East  (extracts)
Appendix 4:  Saudi Arabia: Fatwa for non-Muslims  (5 February 1993)
Appendix 5:  Security Instructions for Jews in Geneva (September- October 2000)
Appendix 6:  Indonesia  2000: East Timor and the Moluccas
Appendix A:  Muslim Historians and Theologians
Appendix B:  Non-Muslim   Historians and Authors

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
General Index
 
 

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