Religious tolerance in Isfahan was unusual compared to Christian Europe.
Evidence
Visiting Europeans were astonished by this active religious tolerance, with Christians and Jews, each with their own places of worship, peacefully accommodated within a Muslim state – a level of religious diversity unthinkable in Christian Europe at the time. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1245
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1245
- XREF: connects to: Muslim-ruled al-Andalus flourished while Christian Europe stagnated. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 52; Western attitudes to Islam have shifted across history rather than forming a constant clash.