Abstract
AHL AL-ḎIMMA VS. AHL AL-KITĀB IN ISLAM: SYNONYMS OR DIFFERENT TERMS?
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FPM NoAUpA in texts), plus the number of authors who employ those terms. This should ensure that it is possible to decide whether there is not just one big treatise on the topic that covers most of the usages, or that the usage is common with more authors
Asian and African Studies, Volume 30, Number 1, 2021 minorities”2 and one should add that in order to qualify for such a construct, one had to fulfil certain prerequisites, such as being a member of the ahl al-kitāb
A somewhat tighter connection between the two concepts can be seen in the first article, but even here, this connection is not overemphasized. This holds for the ahl al-kitāb, where one can find a reference to the legal aspect of these people under ḏimma
Summary
UpA in texts), plus the number of authors who employ those terms. This should ensure that it is possible to decide whether there is not just one big treatise on the topic that covers most of the usages, or that the usage is common with more authors. The other term, ahl al-kitāb, displays a slightly different run of the curve, with rather high peaks in the 8th, 14th, and especially 20th centuries This is illustrated, where the different peaks are clearly visible. The lowest co-occurrence was set arbitrarily to at least 1.7 per cent, i.e. a collocation of the concept and a certain word must occupy at least 1.7 percent of the whole occurrences with the concept From this sample, the percentual information is derived. The example in note 10, shows that the percentage of grammatical words or stopwords can be rather high, close to 50 per cent. These instances were omitted from our analysis. Tithe law poor Allah, God protection business fasting debate book Jew, Jewish knowledge polytheism unbelief believe
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