Jewish Muslims : How Christians Imagined Islam As the Enemy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freidenreich, David M., 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and antisemitism.

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Islamophobia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction: Jewish Muslims?

Part one. Biblical Muslims

Chapter 1 Paul’s Rivals and the Early Christian Discourse of Anti-Judaism: First through Sixth Centuries

Chapter 2 Making Sense of the Muslim Conquests: Seventh through Ninth Centuries

Chapter 3 “ Drive Out the Slave and Her Son” Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries

Chapter 4 Imagining the Dome of the Rock as the Biblical Temple: Seventh through Fourteenth Centuries

Part two. Judaizing Muslims

Chapter 5 “New Jews”: Muslims as Foils for Educating Eastern Christians: Seventh through Ninth Centuries

Chapter 6 What Makes Islam Jewish? Allegations of Carnality and Irrationality: Eighth through Twelfth Centuries

Chapter 7 Muhammad the Jew, and Other Moralizing Slurs: Twelfth through Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 8 The Logic, and the Consequences, of Defining Muslims as Judaizers: Fourth through Seventeenth Centuries

Part three. Anti-Christian Muslims

Chapter 9 Muslims Killed Christ!? Theological Arguments and Political Agendas: Eleventh through Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 10 Conspiracy Theories: Muslim Agents of Jewish Malevolence. Seventh through Fourteenth Centuries

Chapter 11 How Muslims, Jews, and Romans Became Worshippers of Muhammad: Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries

Chapter 12 Luther’s Rivals and the Emergent Discourse of Anti-Islam: Sixteenth Century

Afterword: Rhetoric about Muslims and Jews Today

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Freidenreich, David M. Jewish Muslims

ISBN:

9780520975644

OCLC:

1328003094