The Institute of Ismaili Studies Publishes The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam

The Institute of Ismaili Studies - IIS Publishes The Spirit of Tolerance in IslamThe IIS is pleased to announce the publication of The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam by Reza Shah-Kazemi. In the book, the author demonstrates, using predominantly western historical sources, that religious tolerance was in fact the historical norm which characterised the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, and that intolerance was a clear deviation from this norm.

He further argues that it was this Muslim norm of religious tolerance that significantly contributed to the process by which western Christendom shed its own history of religious intolerance, and came to enshrine the principle of religious tolerance at the heart of liberal political discourse.

via The Institute of Ismaili Studies – IIS Publishes The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam.

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