 Of the four schools of Islamic law, the Hanafi and Maliki schools allow polytheists to be granted "dhimmi" status except Arab polytheists.However, the Shafi'i and Hanbali schools only consider Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians to be eligible to belong to the "Dhimmi" category.Wael Hallaq states that in theory, Islamic religious tolerance only applied to monotheistic "People of the Book" like Christians, Jews and Magians if they paid the "jizya" tax, and pagans were only offered two choices