Political quietism prevailed across most Muslim states for a thousand years.
Evidence
[There] was a consensus that as long as a ruler could defend the territories of Islam (dar al-Islam) and did not prevent his Muslim subjects from practicing their religion, rebellion is forbidden, for fitna (anarchy) was worse than tyranny … Political quietism was the rule in most Muslim polities most of the time for a thousand years, from the eighth to the eighteenth century. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 321
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Political quietism toward rulers prevailed across Muslim polities for a millennium (similarity 0.94)
Broader Connections
- Political quietism toward rulers prevailed across Muslim polities for a millennium
#corroborates(0.98) - Muslims accepted tyranny as preferable to anarchy for a thousand years.
#expands(0.95)