딤미 담론에 관한 고찰 - 한 가지 신분, 네 가지 내러티브 -

Non-Muslims are categorized into three groups in Islam: dhimmi who has the revealed books such as Christians and Jews, musta min who stays in Islamic territory temporarily, and harbi who is the opponents. Among these three, it is the dhimmi, or the protected people, who had been in continuous relationship with the majority Muslims as a minority group in Islamic society. Though the dhimmi system was abolished in the twentieth century, evaluation and interpretation of it vary. This article examines four major contemporary narratives on the dhimmi status: the tolerance, the victim’s, the Islamophobic, and the extremist narrative. The study shows that the tolerance narrative itself has broad spectrum in understanding of the ideal and its practice, and that each narrative reflect different needs and social conditions of different groups.