Interfaith society persisted within Islam despite the Christian blockade

Evidence

In spite of so severe a law, both Latin and indigenous Christian communities flourished within Islam, and there were certain contacts with Muslims which were not commercial, or which at least did not come under the ban of the blockade, and so did not involve the automatic excommunication. Men who bound Christians to Muslim employers, as a result of which faith was endangered, were not excommunicated, but had committed mortal sin. The same was true of those who sold Christians as slaves, and even of those who sold Jewish and Muslim women, making them pretend, to the detriment of the Christian name, that they were Christians. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 659

Categorization

• XREF: That flourishing Christian communities lived under Islam complicates any clean reading of a hermetically-sealed Christian-Muslim binary the vault may carry — relevant nuance for the Jew-Arab genealogy thread.