Antisemitism in Islam
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
“World Jewry’s purpose is to eliminate all limitations, especially the limitations posed by faith and religion, so that the Jews may penetrate into [the] body politic of the whole world and then may be free to perpetuate their evil designs.”--Our Struggle against the Jews (1950) by Sayyid Qutb [1] |
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Islam and antisemitism relates to Islamic theological teaching against Jews and Judaism and the treatment of Jews in Muslim countries.
With the origin of Islam in the 7th century and its rapid spread in the Arabian peninsula and beyond, Jews (and many other peoples) came to be subject to the rule of Muslim rulers. The quality of the rule varied considerably in different periods, as did the attitudes of the rulers, government officials, clergy and general population to various subject peoples from time to time, which was reflected in their treatment of these subjects. Reuven Firestone says, "negative assessments and even condemnation of prior religions and their adherents occur in all three scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam." Scholars have studied and debated Muslim attitudes to, and treatment of, Jews in Islamic thought and societies throughout history.
See also
- After Saturday Comes Sunday
- Anti-Zionism
- Antisemitism in the Arab world
- Christianity and antisemitism
- History of the Jews under Muslim rule
- Holocaust denial
- Islamic–Jewish relations
- Islamism
- New antisemitism
- Qutbism
- Racism in the Palestinian territories
- Religious intolerance
- The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism