Polemics against "Protected People" in the Mamluk Period: Ghāzī ibn al-Wāsiṭī and His Answer to the Dhimmis

Abstract

The chapter deals with the polemical arguments of Ghāzī ibn al-Wāsiṭīs' lampoon An Answer to the Dhimmis. His polemics aims mainly at employment of Christians and Jews in the Mamluk administrative.

Keywords

• Ghāzī ibn al-Wāsiṭī
• polemics
• Christians
• Jews
• Mamluks