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Jewish Muslims

How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy

By: David M. Freidenreich

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Jewish Muslims

How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy

By: David M. Freidenreich

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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Univ of California Press

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0520975642

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9780520975644

Foreigners and Their Food

Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

By: David M. Freidenreich

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Foreigners and Their Food

Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

By: David M. Freidenreich

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize “us” and “them” through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the “other.” Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion.

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Univ of California Press

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0520286278

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German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

By: Marc David Baer

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German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

By: Marc David Baer

Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. He was a gay man who never called himself gay but fought for homosexual rights and wrote queer fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus during his decades of exile. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle. Baer explores how Marcus created a unique synthesis of German, gay, and Muslim identity that positioned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an intellectual and spiritual model. Marcus’s life offers a new perspective on sexuality and on competing conceptions of gay identity in the multilayered world of interwar and postwar Europe. His unconventional story reveals new aspects of the interconnected histories of Jewish and Muslim individuals and communities, including Muslim responses to Nazism and Muslim experiences of the Holocaust. An intellectual biography of an exceptional yet little-known figure, German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics.

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Columbia University Press

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0231551789

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9780231551786

Foreigners and Their Food

Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

By: David M. Freidenreich

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Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law

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Jewish Muslims

How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy

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How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy

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Jewish Muslims

Jewish Muslims

Foreigners and Their Food

Foreigners and Their Food

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

Foreigners and Their Food

Foreigners and Their Food

Jewish Muslims

Jewish Muslims

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