Is there a moral economy of state formation? Religious minorities and repertoires of regime integration in the Middle East and Western Europe, 600–1614
Ariel Salzmann
This article asks how state formation processes informed the normative frameworks of late-Medieval and early-Modern Latin European Muslim Middle Eastern regimes. The question at hand is not why pre-Modern regimes discriminated against religious minorities (as well as other groups) during period, but Western states consistently engaged in mass expulsions their non-Christian subjects from late thirteenth century onward neighboring East did not. Rather than addressing these peculiar policies a function religion, culture, or law adopts comparative, contextual method. With aid Charles Tilly’s theoretical perspectives it isolates critical variables formation. These are then used to shed light on circumstances relationships that led Europe’s Jews Muslims between 1290 1614.
Theory and Society