Is this some sort of remnant of evangelical puritan protestant ideology?

I don’t understaun this.

If you ask me, it’d make as much sense as Orthodox and Christians… or Shia and Muslim…

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    1 year ago

    Don’t forget the Baha’i, the Babs, and the Druze. Don’t know if they’re considered people of the book or not. Same with the Samaritan Israelites

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      I’ll just copy paste Wikipedia since it’s actually pretty good here:

      In the Quran [the people of the book] are identified as the Jews, the Christians, the Sabians, and—according to some interpretations—the Zoroastrians. Starting from the 8th century, some Muslims also recognized other religious groups such as the Samaritans, and even Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains

      We don’t actually know who the Sabians were, though there are a few theories.

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      I think only Christians, Jews, and Sabians are al-Khitab if I recall correctly from my course on Islam two decades ago.