History of the Jews under Muslim rule
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- | [[Jewish history|Jewish communities]] have existed across the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]] since [[Classical antiquity|Antiquity]]. By the time of the [[Muslim conquests]] of the 7th century, these ancient communities had been ruled by various empires and included the [[Babylonian Jews|Babylonian]], [[Persian Jews|Persian]], [[Jews in Carthage|Carthaginian]], [[Hellenistic Jews|Greek]], [[Roman Jews|Roman]], [[Byzantine Jews|Byzantine]], [[Old Yishuv|Ottoman]] and [[Yemenite Jews]]. | + | |
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- | [[Islamic–Jewish relations|Jews under Islamic rule]] were given the status of [[dhimmi]], along with certain other pre-Islamic religious groups. Though [[second-class citizen]]s, these non-Muslim groups were nevertheless accorded certain rights and protections as "[[people of the book]]". During [[Jews in the Middle Ages|waves of persecution in Medieval Europe]], many [[Jewish refugees|Jews found refuge]] in Muslim lands. For instance, [[Golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula|Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula]] were invited to settle in various parts of the [[Ottoman Empire]], where they would often form a prosperous [[model minority]] of merchants [[History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire|acting as intermediaries for their Muslim rulers]]. | + | |
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- | Today, Jews residing in [[Muslim countries]] have been [[Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries|reduced to a small fraction]] of their [[Historical Jewish population comparisons|former sizes]], with [[Jews in Iran|Iran]] and [[Jews in Turkey|Turkey]] being home to the largest remaining Jewish populations. | + | |
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- | ==Middle Ages== | + | |
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- | ==See also== | + | |
- | *[[Musta'arbi Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[Bukharan Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[Maghrebi Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[Mizrahi Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[Persian Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[Sephardi Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[African Jews]] | + | |
- | *[[Islam and Judaism]] | + | |
- | *[[Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain]] | + | |
- | *[[Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries]] | + | |
- | *[[History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula]] | + | |
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