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“No two religions”: Non-Muslims in the early Islamic Ḥijāz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2014

Harry Munt
Harry Munt*
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Abstract

Many classical Islamic sources argue that it is not permissible for non-Muslims to reside in the Ḥijāz, especially Mecca and Medina. Such arguments are usually based on a famous Prophetic saying, “Two religions should not join/remain in the peninsula/land of the Arabs”, and on the reported action taken by the second caliph ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to remove non-Muslims from settlements in western Arabia. In this article, it is argued that the contradictory nature of the evidence for this expulsion casts serious doubt on whether such a widespread action actually took place, certainly not in the decades immediately following Muḥammad's death. It concludes that the widely attested classical prohibition on non-Muslims residing in the Ḥijāz rather had much more to do with the gradually evolving need to draw up firmer communal boundaries, which could help distinguish Muslims from others, and the role played by sacred spaces in doing so.

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ḤijāzMeccaNon-MuslimsḤadithIslamic lawCommunal boundaries
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 249 - 269
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24 The translation is Arberry's (slightly adapted).

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51 For more examples, see the studies cited in n. 45.

52 Shabba, Ibn, Taʾrīkh al-Madīna al-munawwara, ed. Bayān, Y.S.-D. and Dandal, ʿA.M., 2 vols (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1417/1996), I, 113Google Scholar; al-Ṭabarī, Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk, ed. de Goeje, M.J. et al. , 3 parts in 13 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1879–1901)Google Scholar, III, 1760.

53 Khurradādhbih, Ibn, Kitāb al-Masālik wa-al-mamālik, ed. de Goeje, M.J. (Leiden: Brill, 1889)Google Scholar, 153; Gil, M., “The Rādhānite merchants and the land of Rādhān”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 17/3, 1974, 308–9Google Scholar.

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56 This source is the so-called Statistique inédite de l'ancienne église chaldéo-nestorienne [= Taqwīm al-kanāʾis al-nusṭūriyya], ed. and trans. P. Aziz (Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1909), 8 for Medina. (I am very grateful to Muriel Debié for providing me with a copy of this text.) Modern scholars seem somewhat divided over the usefulness of the information provided in this source, which was written after the turn of the seventeenth century ce. J.M. Fiey, for example, noted that, “Cet ouvrage est d'ailleurs un factum tardif sans aucune valeur historique”; see his “Comment l'occident en vint à parler de ‘Chaldéens’”, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 78/3, 1996, 167Google Scholar, n. 29. Others, however, have given more weight to it, including Aigrain, R., “Arabie”, in Baudrillart, A. et al. (eds), Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. 3 (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1924)Google Scholar, col. 1333; Robin, C.J., “Arabia, Christians and Jews in”, in Vauchez, A. et al. (eds), Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, 2 vols (Cambridge: James Clark & Co., 2000), I, 89–90Google Scholar. If this Statistique inédite were shown to contain generally reliable information, it would certainly shed remarkable new light on an otherwise totally hidden Christian community; as well as the metropolitan bishop at Medina and one at Ṣanʿāʾ, it also mentions a number of other Arabian bishops (including at Najrān and ʿUkāẓ), and a host of more minor officials and sizeable Christian communities. I have not spent much time working with this source, but my current feeling is that its information on the Ḥijāz at least seems most likely to be spurious, although if this is the case it is just as interesting that someone thought it worth inventing.

57 On early Islamic geographical definitions of the Ḥijāz and other constituent parts of the Arabian Peninsula, see also Lammens, H., “L'ancienne frontière entre la Syrie et le Ḥidjâz (notes de géographie historique)”, Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 14, 1918, 69–96Google Scholar; al-Wohaibi, A., The Northern Hijaz in the Writings of the Arab Geographers, 800–1150 (Beirut: al-Risalah, 1973), 17–31Google Scholar; Bashear, S., “Yemen in early Islam: an examination of non-tribal traditions”, Arabica 36/3, 1989, 327–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Lecker, M., “Biographical notes on Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī”, JSS 41/1, 1996, 58–61Google Scholar; Retsö, J., The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 48–51Google Scholar. For a detailed discussion of the problems faced by Muslim scholars confronting this particular question, see also Schöller, Exegetisches Denken, 322–34.

58 Al-Balādhurī, Kitāb Futūḥ al-Buldān, ed. Goeje, M.J. de (Leiden: Brill, 1866), 34–5Google Scholar; al-Wāqidī, Kitāb al-Maghāzī, ed. Jones, J.M.B., 3 vols (London: Oxford University Press, 1966)Google Scholar, II, 711; Abū Dāwūd, Sunan, III, 281 (Kitāb al-Kharāj wa-al-imāra wa-al-fayʾ, bāb 28).

59 For example, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Muṣannaf, VI, 55 (no. 9989); al-Bukhārī, Jāmiʿ, II, 72 (Kitāb al-Ḥarth wa-al-muzāraʿa, bāb, 17).

60 Al-Khallāl, Ahl al-milal, I, 127–8 (nos 143–4).

61 Al-Bakrī, Muʿjam, I, 11 (reading al-jinān, “the gardens”, instead of the published al-ḥinān).

62 For example, Aḥmad, al-Khalīl b. (attrib.), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, ed. al-Makhzūmī, M. and al-Sāmarrāʾī, I., 8 vols (Baghdad: Dār al-Rashīd, 1980–85)Google Scholar, III, 70; al-Iṣfahānī, Bilād al-ʿarab, ed. al-ʿAlī, Ṣ.A. and al-Jāsir, Ḥ. (Riyadh: Dār al-Yamāma, 1388/1968), 14–16Google Scholar; al-Bakrī, Muʿjam, I, 11–12.

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67 For example, al-Balādhurī, Futūḥ, 34–5.

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69 Levy-Rubin, Non-Muslims, esp. 58–98.

70 Ibn Abī Shayba, Muṣannaf, XI, 347 (Kitāb al-Siyar, bāb 71; no. 33538).

71 Ibn Abī Shayba, Muṣannaf, XI, 347 (Kitāb al-Siyar, bāb 71; no. 33539).

72 For example, Yaḥyā al-Laythī, Muwaṭṭaʾ, II, 470 (Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ, no. 17): ittakhadhū qubūr anbiyāʾihim masājid.

73 For a possibly more successful attempt at expelling non-Muslims from a part of the Islamic world, see Fierro Bello, “Muslim land”.

74 Such was already suggested a century ago by Caetani, L., Annali dell'islam, 10 vols (Milan: Ulrico Heopli, 1905–26)Google Scholar, II/i, 507: “In verità, la esclusione dei non musulmani della penisola arabica fu un prodotto del fanatismo religioso del II e III secolo delle Hiǵrah. Il sentimento era ancora prematuro ai tempi di Maometto, quando forse più di quattro quinti degli Arabi ancora non erano musulmani”.

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89 For just a few examples, Abū Dāwūd, Sunan, III, 268 (Kitāb al-Kharāj wa-al-imāra wa-al-fayʾ, bāb 22); al-Bukhārī, Jāmiʿ, II, 72 (Kitāb al-Ḥarth wa-al-muzāraʿa, bāb 17); II, 294–5 (Kitāb al-Jizya, bāb 6).

90 Al-Māwardī, al-Ḥāwī al-kabīr, XIV, 336–7.

91 Al-Sarakhsī, Sharḥ, III, 257.