Jewish Muslims

How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews.Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims have been intertwined in Christian thought since the rise of Islam. In Jewish Muslims, David M. Freidenreich explores the history of this complex, perplexing, and emotionally fraught phenomenon. He makes the compelling case that, then and now, hate-mongers target "them" in an effort to define "us."Analyzing anti-Muslim sentiment in texts and images produced across Europe and the Middle East over a thousand years, the author shows how Christians intentionally distorted reality by alleging that Muslims were just like Jews. They did so not only to justify assaults against Muslims on theological grounds but also to motivate fellow believers to live as "good" Christians. The disdain premodern polemicists expressed for Islam and Judaism was never really about these religions. Rather, they sought to promote their own visions of Christianity—a dynamic that similarly animates portrayals of Muslims and Jews today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520344716

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David M. Freidenreich is Pulver Family Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College and author of Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law.

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"Instructive for combatting present-day prejudices."

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ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Jewish Muslims? PART ONE. BIBLICAL MUSLIMS1. Paul’s Rivals and the Early Christian Discourse of Anti-Judaism First through Sixth Centuries2. Making Sense of the Muslim ConquestsSeventh through Ninth Centuries3. “Drive Out the Slave and Her Son”Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries4. Imagining the Dome of the Rock as the Biblical TempleSeventh through Fourteenth CenturiesPART TWO. JUDAIZING MUSLIMS5. “New Jews”: Muslims as Foils for Educating Eastern ChristiansSeventh through Ninth Centuries6. What Makes Islam Jewish? Allegations of Carnality and IrrationalityEighth through Twelfth Centuries7. Muhammad the Jew, and Other Moralizing SlursTwelfth through Seventeenth Centuries8. The Logic, and the Consequences, of Defining Muslims as JudaizersFourth through Seventeenth CenturiesPART THREE. ANTI-CHRISTIAN MUSLIMS9. Muslims Killed Christ!? Theological Arguments and Political AgendasEleventh through Seventeenth Centuries10. Conspiracy Theories: Muslim Agents of Jewish MalevolenceSeventh through Fourteenth Centuries11. How Muslims, Jews, and Romans Became Worshippers of MuhammadTwelfth through Fifteenth Centuries12. Luther’s Rivals and the Emergent Discourse of Anti-IslamSixteenth CenturyAfterword: Rhetoric about Muslims and Jews TodayAcknowledgmentsChronologyNotesBibliographyIndex