>
> While the Magi or "Fire Worshippers" are mentioned in the Qu'ran,
> I don't think they're counted as People of the Book. Of course
> some Muslim scholars have a lose interpretation of this, and I
> have heard of some Moghuls even justifying People of the Book
> status for Hindus and Buddhists.
Dear Rich,
In the strictest sense the Kitab referred to in the phrase Ahl-i Kitab
or People of the Book is the Bible. But you are right that in practice
it has been much more loosely defined. And this was so long before the
Mughals. When the Arabs concquered Sind in the eighth century the
Bramans told them that their Vedas were the oldest scriptures in the
world. Muslims took their word for this and assumed that they were
therefore written by the oldest prophet in the world, namely Adam. Ali
is said to have made a covenant with the Zoroastrians of Persian
wherein he recognized their status as dhimmis. Later Zoroaster was
presumed to be the same prophet as Abraham, a mistake which Abu'l-Fadl
repeats in Baha'i Proofs.
warmest, Susan
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