Which of the following statements is true of the status of "people of the book" under Muhammad's rule?
a. They were not allowed to practice their religions among themselves.
b. They formed the minority communities that were violently persecuted.
c. They were forced to choose between conversion to Islam and death.
d. They did not have the right to seek and accept converts from Islam.
d. They did not have the right to seek and accept converts from Islam.
Analysis:
a, b & c. Incorrect. Over time, most of the Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian communities shrank to shadows of their earlier sizes in the Middle East and North Africa, as second-class status, pressure for conversion to Islam, and migration out of the Islamic empire took their tolls.
d. Correct. "People of the book" did not have the right to seek and accept converts from Islam, build new houses of worship, or sometimes even repair old ones.
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