The First Muslims Quotes

“The Qur’an after all underscores the Muslim’s duty to come to the aid of oppressed people everywhere, regardless of their religious affiliation and specifically exhorts Muslims (Qur’an 22:40) to defend all places of worship in which God’s name is exalted – churches, synagogues, monasteries, and mosques.”
― Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims: History and Memory

“Furthermore, the Prophet’s gracious reception of the Christians of Najran in Medina, where he allowed them to pray in his mosque and affirmed the continuing protection of their churches, set a new standard for inter-faith relations.42”
― Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims: History and Memory

“Our discussion so far reveals that the early egalitarian Islamic community largely recognized differences among the faithful on the basis of personal piety and moral excellence alone, tending to devalue kinship and social status in conscious contradistinction to the pre-Islamic period.50 Such a moral attitude found broad reflection in the socio-political organization of the early polity as well.”
― Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims: History and Memory

“list Qur’an 9:5”
― Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims: History and Memory

“It is therefore obvious that as late as the fifteenth century there was by no means a scholarly consensus on the status of Qur’an 2:256 and that the most influential commentators of the pre-modern period continued to maintain the normative applicability of this verse.”
― Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims: History and Memory