Religious Tolerance in Islamic Theology: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Freedom of Religious Belief

This chapter investigates the possibility of an Islamic concept of religious tolerance by asking how one canonical Sunnī author, the twelfth-century theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210 CE), interprets those Qurʾānic verses (especially 2:256, but also 4:94 and 10:99) that are commonly introduced in support of contemporary arguments for an Islamic concept of tolerance.