From what I recall, the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates were pretty liberal, and had secular law for non-Muslims, though there was no separation of Church and state: the Anglo-Saxons don't really get close to that place until the C17th and good old Cromwell who lets Jewish folk back in to England.
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Date: 4/5/10 15:33 (UTC)