Islamic Anti-Semitism - Traditional Islamic Attitudes, Introduction Of European Anti-semitic Ideas In The Nineteenth Century, Evolution Of Islamic Anti-semitism In The Twentieth Century

Islamic Anti-Semitism - Traditional Islamic Attitudes

As in the case of Christianity, fundamental Islamic attitudes toward Jews and Judaism go back to the historical circumstances surrounding the founding of the new faith and are sanctioned by scripture and tradition. Jews figure into traditional Islam's theological worldview, and Jews lived as a subject population under Muslim rule, sometimes under better, sometimes under worse conditions. Ho…

Islamic Anti-Semitism - Introduction Of European Anti-semitic Ideas In The Nineteenth Century

Modern anti-Semitic ideas made their first appearance in the Middle East among the Arabic-speaking Christians of Syria, who maintained commercial, educational, and cultural ties with the European nations making ever stronger inroads into the region during the nineteenth century. French merchants and missionaries seem to have played a principal role in this process. The classic European notion of t…

Islamic Anti-Semitism - Evolution Of Islamic Anti-semitism In The Twentieth Century

The Axis gained widespread sympathy in the Islamic world during the 1930s and 1940s because they were the enemies of the Western colonial powers and Western democratic values. Turkish, Arab, and Iranian nationalists admired German militarism. Nazi and Fascist propaganda helped familiarize educated Muslims with the vocabulary of modern anti-Semitism. Mein Kampf appeared in an Arabic translation in …

Islamic Anti-Semitism - Bibliography