Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!regier%cogsci.Berkeley.EDU From: regier%cogsci.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Terry Regier) Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: "People of the Book" Message-ID: <4773@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Mar 90 00:27:47 GMT References: <4663@accuvax.nwu.edu> Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Terry Regier Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 Approved: naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) In article <4663@accuvax.nwu.edu> paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >>the prophet only used the term for Christians and Jews but I have heard >>people use the term in the broader sense outlined above (mainly to justify >>marriage to a Hindu or a Sikh woman :-) ). >> Naim >Naim, in one of his footnotes Yusuf Ali seems to indicate that Hindus >are indeed people of a revealed religion hence includes them in this >definition. I'm not certain that I agree.. I've heard that the term ahl al-kitaab was used in reference to "Jews, Christians, and Sabians". Anybody know just what/who a Sabian is? I'd also heard that Hindus, Zoroastrians, etc sometimes managed to get labeled ahl al-kitaab through this Sabian designation. The whole thing sounds pretty strange, as if Sabian = "miscellaneous". Anybody have light to shed on this? Terry Regier regier@cogsci.berkeley.edu Computer Science, UC Berkeley