- Don't know how useful this is - about the historically low position of Roma/Gypsies in ChristoIslamism:
Gypsies: a persecuted race, by William A. Duna
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Both Moslem and Christian religious preachers placed Gypsies outside normal society by treating them as outcasts</b> and not letting them participate in church and religious functions even when they professed to be converted to the religion of that country. <b>Those Gypsies who were sincere in their beliefs were forced to listen outside an open window of the church or mosque.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
- Racism in Islamic inequality can easily be traced back to the <b>slavery</b> they instituted.
Race and Slavery in the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis
- I have no access to these papers, although they looked promising from google's result page:
(1) Equality and Inequality in Islam
Talal Asad
Man, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 305-306
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Google result provides an interesting statement from this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The literature on <b>structured inequality within Islamic society</b> is enormous ... of Marx (for whom not all class exploitation is capitalist exploita- tion) as ...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
(2) Turner, B. S. (1999), "The Sociology of Islamic Social Structures. A Review Essay", Sociology, Vol 33(1), pp. 1-4.
The Google result that first came up with this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->[PDF] The sociology of Islamic social structures File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
<b>of social inequality in imperial Islam</b>. However, Gellnerâs more general question about. the survival of Islam in a post-communist and postmodern global ... - Similar pages<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Looks interesting, but PDF is missing or only accessible for members of Cambridge journals
- A different page from the same communist site 'countercurrents' which was mentioned by Dhu
"Islam And Caste Inequality Among Indian Muslims" (still manages to blame Hinduism for it somehow) Still, our neighbour the Dar-ul-Islam has not yet become Pardees in spite of Islam's 'gentle' effects.
Gypsies: a persecuted race, by William A. Duna
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Both Moslem and Christian religious preachers placed Gypsies outside normal society by treating them as outcasts</b> and not letting them participate in church and religious functions even when they professed to be converted to the religion of that country. <b>Those Gypsies who were sincere in their beliefs were forced to listen outside an open window of the church or mosque.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
- Racism in Islamic inequality can easily be traced back to the <b>slavery</b> they instituted.
Race and Slavery in the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis
- I have no access to these papers, although they looked promising from google's result page:
(1) Equality and Inequality in Islam
Talal Asad
Man, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 305-306
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Google result provides an interesting statement from this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The literature on <b>structured inequality within Islamic society</b> is enormous ... of Marx (for whom not all class exploitation is capitalist exploita- tion) as ...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
(2) Turner, B. S. (1999), "The Sociology of Islamic Social Structures. A Review Essay", Sociology, Vol 33(1), pp. 1-4.
The Google result that first came up with this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->[PDF] The sociology of Islamic social structures File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
<b>of social inequality in imperial Islam</b>. However, Gellnerâs more general question about. the survival of Islam in a post-communist and postmodern global ... - Similar pages<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Looks interesting, but PDF is missing or only accessible for members of Cambridge journals
- A different page from the same communist site 'countercurrents' which was mentioned by Dhu
"Islam And Caste Inequality Among Indian Muslims" (still manages to blame Hinduism for it somehow) Still, our neighbour the Dar-ul-Islam has not yet become Pardees in spite of Islam's 'gentle' effects.