Michael Rozek has posted his MA thesis. Christian social-religious liberties did not immediately begin in conflict or legal restraint, but rather gradually developed and became restricted over time because Christians pressed in, crossed over, and challenged the religious beliefs of Islamic confessional communities, potentially prompting Arab-Muslims to convert to Christianity.
It's... a take. 120-something pages. I haven't read them.
We all agree with the first half, before the because
. I remain uncertain of the second half. Although the timing is right - I am long on record that I don't hold sura 9 as a seventh-century sura. I can well imagine conflict between the qurrâ and Arabic-speaking missionaries along that crescent Jericho, Damascus, Tikrit, al-Hira, the Furat of Mayshan and Qatar. Our documentation down here is nowhere near as good as it is for the Syriac gzirta from Edessa to Nineveh to Kirkuk.
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