Penyebaran Islam di Mesir

Penyebaran Islam di Mesir terjadi sebagai akibat dari penaklukan Muslim terhadap Mesir Romawi oleh bangsa Arab pimpinan jenderal Muslim berpengaruh Amr ibn al-Aas, gubernur militer Tanah Suci. Masyarakat lokal di Mesir dan Timur Tengah mengalami perpindahan agama bertahap skala besar dari Kristen ke Islam, disertai oleh pajak tinggi bagi orang yang enggan untuk berpindah agama.^[1] Peristiwa tersebut dituturkan oleh Yohanes dari Nikiû, seorang uskup koptik yang menulis soal penaklukan tersebut.

Referensi

^ Conversion, Exemption, and Manipulation: Social Benefits and Conversion to Islam in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Forcing taxes on those who refuse to convert (PDF), ʿUmar is depicted as having ordered that "the poll-tax should be taken from all men who would not become Muslims"

Sumber

Betts, Robert B. (1978). Christians in the Arab East: A Political Study (edisi ke-2nd rev.). Athens: Lycabettus Press.
Charles, Robert H. (2007) [1916]. The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu: Translated from Zotenberg's Ethiopic Text. Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing.
Kamil, Jill (1990). Coptic Egypt: History and a Guide (edisi ke-Revised). American University in Cairo Press.
Meyendorff, John (1989). Imperial unity and Christian divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D. The Church in history. 2. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

[1] Conversion, Exemption, and Manipulation: Social Benefits and Conversion to Islam in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Forcing taxes on those who refuse to convert (PDF), ʿUmar is depicted as having ordered that "the poll-tax should be taken from all men who would not become Muslims"

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