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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2310534, member: 74222&quot;]…and Kharaj which was a landtax plus some socio-discrminatory laws like they only had to ride on donkeys while horse was reserved to the Muslims or their testimony was only 50% reliable against a Muslims in the court plus other various things.</p><p><br /></p><p>The toleration did not occur in whole as there were some considerably exemptions such as in the Arabian Peninsula where Jews/Christians were killed or expelled, or in the Maghreb plus the Almoravid Dynasty and Alhohad Caliphate in Muslim Spain. The things in Afghanistan and India(only initially here) went very different as there were forced conversions and destructions of non Muslims very similar to what the Christians committed in South America.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is certainly true.</p><p><br /></p><p>The early Muslims were of desert nomad origins and thus they were unskilled comparing to the Byzantines/Persians which were of agricultural societies.</p><p><br /></p><p>The early Muslims were the most tolerance as they were very dependent on the Christians’ skills (and the Persians as well) and as they were more focusing on securing their Diwan(rule) rather than proselytize in first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like for instance the translation of ancient Greek texts such of Platon and Aristoteles from Greek into Arabic were indeed not carried out by the Muslims as it was actually native non-Arabs Christians of Middle East that took the brunt of translating it into Arabic for the Arabs in the House of Wisdom.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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