What was the status of Zoroastrians after Muslims conquered Iran in
the 7th century? Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History addresses
this and other issues of intercommunal contact in the early
caliphates. It argues that caliphal administrators, following an
imperial logic of accommodation, accepted tax from Zoroastrians
without recognising them as People of the Book. Later Muslim
jurists, uncomfortable with that decision, sought to circumscribe
social interaction with Zoroastrians. Local Persian historians
remembered the Muslim Zoroastrian encounter differently. They
promoted triumphal tales of violence and temple desecration.
Meanwhile, Arab Muslim authors used the term 'Zoroastrians' to
describe pagans, heretics and other perceived deviants. This book
juxtaposes these competing memories in order to explore the
ambivalence that some Muslims felt about accommodation. Drawing on
sources in Arabic and Persian from the Middle East and South Asia,
it challenges readers to reconsider assumptions about the nature of
interfaith relations in medieval Iran.
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