A kisebbség fogalma a Közel-Keleten. Egy esettanulmány: a kurdok
The concept of minority in the Middle East. A case study: The Kurds

Summary/Abstract: While in the European narratives the ethnic and national perceptions of minorities are prevailing, in the Middle East and the Islamic world ‘otherness’ and minority are interpreted on a religious basis. Islam, therefore, has created the model of handling religious minorities, and has from the beginning distinguished between pagans and the ‘peoples of the book’ (ahl al-kitab). The latter, under certain circumstances, has enjoyed the protection of the majority. As a consequence of the European intervention in the region, a new terminus technicus appeared: ‘aqalliyya’, which is the literal translation of ‘minority’.

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