- The following passage is from a book that records the impact of Islam on
the religious communities in the countries invaded by the armies of
Islam.
the only surviving seventh-century Coptic [Christian] texts are all
hostile to the Arabs. And later observations [...] contrast strongly with the
anguish in earlier accounts like the following: “When the Arabs heard of
the festival [...] they appeared there and took captive a large number of
men and women and innumerable boys and girls. The Christians who
were left no longer knew what to believe. Some of them said: ‘Why does
God allow this to happen’?” Robert Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others
Saw It: a Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian
Writings on Early Islam, Princeton, 1997, p.23. ↵
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