AL-HAKIM BI-AMR ALLAH

al-Mansur Abu Ali

al-Mansur Abu Ali. Germany has a similar law, even at the beginning of the 21st Century.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. The Caliph was trying to return to Muslim Fundamentalism.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. This quotation demonstrates that the extreme concern about nudity and even exposure of arms and legs that is claimed by Muslim Fundamentalists did not have a basis in traditional Islam. Jews and Christians for examples at this time would have seen men or women parading around in baths with just a towel around their waists as sinful. In many ways Islam was then the modern religion and culture.

The Caliph was both the religious authority and the civil authority. Islam traditionally sees no desirable separation between church and state.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. Even though the Caliph was trying to return to Muslim Fundamentalism, there was a general tolerance that was far in advance of Christian societies at the time. It is dramatically at variance with many of the more rigorous Islamic countries today.

Barjawan was a eunuch slave. Islamic rulers typically used slaves as major governmental appointees. That way they had the unilateral power of life and death over the official which under Islamic law they did not have with a free appointee. Since fellow Muslims could not be held as slaves, most governmental officials were Christians, Jews or other non-believers. The result was that Muslims never developed a culture of administration, management and bureaucracy until very recently.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. Despite the Koranic prohibition of alcohol, Egyptians at the time drank a wine made of fermented raisins and honey. Previous Caliphs had not strongly attempted to enforce the religious law. The Caliph’s Christian physician, Ibn Anastas, pronounced wine a healthy drink and the population was delighted. He soon died, and the Caliph, in an attempt to return to Muslim fundamentalism, banned all alcohol. He had great difficulty enforcing his prohibition, and finally resorted to banning the sale of the favorite wine making ingredients.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. The Caliph was trying to return to Muslim Fundamentalism.

al-Mansur Abu Ali

al-Mansur Abu Ali. Despite the Koranic prohibition of alcohol, Egyptians at the time drank a wine made of fermented raisins and honey. Previous Caliphs had not strongly attempted to enforce the religious law. The Caliph’s Christian physician, Ibn Anastas, pronounced wine a healthy drink and the population was delighted. He soon died, and the Caliph, in an attempt to return to Muslim fundamentalism, banned all alcohol. He had great difficulty enforcing his prohibition, and finally resorted to banning the sale of the favorite wine making ingredients.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. Even though the Caliph was trying to return to Muslim Fundamentalism, there was a general tolerance that was far in advance of Christian societies at the time. It is dramatically at variance with many of the more rigorous Islamic countries today.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. The Caliph was trying to return to Muslim Fundamentalism.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. The Caliph was trying to return to Muslim Fundamentalism.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. Germany has a similar law, even at the beginning of the 21st Century.

al-Mansur Abu Ali. This quotation demonstrates that the extreme concern about nudity and even exposure of arms and legs that is claimed by Muslim Fundamentalists did not have a basis in traditional Islam. Jews and Christians for examples at this time would have seen men or women parading around in baths with just a towel around their waists as sinful. In many ways Islam was then the modern religion and culture.

The Caliph was both the religious authority and the civil authority. Islam traditionally sees no desirable separation between church and state.

Barjawan was a eunuch slave. Islamic rulers typically used slaves as major governmental appointees. That way they had the unilateral power of life and death over the official which under Islamic law they did not have with a free appointee. Since fellow Muslims could not be held as slaves, most governmental officials were Christians, Jews or other non-believers. The result was that Muslims never developed a culture of administration, management and bureaucracy until very recently.