Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition

In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 140-141

Abstract

For example, in dealing with interfaith marriage, he points to the fact that, while the Old Testament, the Talmud, and Christian canon law uniformly frown on mixed marriages, the Muslim legal schools allowed Muslim men to marry Jewish and Christian women (p. 160-61). According to the Qur'an, Jews and Christians represent a special category of religious adherents called People of the Book, who were not required to accept Islam or face death, but were allowed to pay a tax and to remain in their communities of faith.