Author: 'Ali Tabari

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781330278239

Excerpt from The Book of Religion and Empire: A Semi-Official Defence and Exposition of Islam Written by Order at the Court and With the Assistance of the Caliph Mutawakkil, A. D. 847-861 The present work may possibly attract the attention of some scholars and students of comparative religion. It is a semi-official defence of Islam written at the command, with the assistance, and in the court of the Caliph Mutawakkil (A.D. 847-861); the adversaries more frequently attacked are the Christians, who, thanks to their numerical strength, to the vigilance of the East-Syrian Patriarchs residing in Baghdad, and to the influence of a successive series of court-physicians, were the strongest opponents of the State religion at the time of the 'Abbasid dynasty; in the second rank come Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Parsees, who, however, are more severely handled. The work is also likely to throw great light on the religious tendencies of Muhammadanism at the time of its greatest expansion and orthodoxy. It is not our intention to give here a synopsis of the general plan adopted in the execution of the work, nor to express an opinion on its intrinsic merits and demerits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.