"In the early days of the Islamic empire the Christian inhabitants of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent were probably better off as dhimmis under Muslim Arab rulers than they had been under Byzantine Greeks."
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Islamic Political Thought: The Basic Concepts (1968), p. 51.
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William Montgomery Watt
1909 – 2006
britischer Professor fĂĽr Arabistik und Islamistik
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