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Jonathan A.C. Brown

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American scholar of Islamic studies (born 1977)

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Islam and Blackness
  • Slavery and Islam

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Australia
Active from
1973-11
blues rockhard rockrockrock and roll

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Quotes

  • No compulsion in religion’ (2:256) was a Qur'anic command revealed in Medina when a child from one of the Muslim families who had been educated in the town's Jewish schools decided to depart with the Jewish tribe being expelled from Medina. His distraught parents were told by God and the Prophet in this verse that they could not compel their son to stay. The verse, however, has been understood over the centuries as a general command that people cannot be forced to convert to Islam.

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