Agamben closes the theological gap between Jew and Muslim by conflating them

Evidence

It is indeed striking to consider that having broken new ground in turning critical attention to the Muselmann, the Muslim, and having significantly participated in the renewed discussion of the theologico-political, Agamben summarizes the spheres that are abandoned by the Muslim onto a new indistinguishability in the following terms: “At times a medical figure or an ethical category, at times a political limit or an anthropological concept, the Muselmann is an indefinite being in whom not only humanity and non-humanity, but also vegetative existence and relation, physiology and ethics, medicine and politics, and life and death continuously pass through each other” (Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz, 48). There would be, then, no theological zone of indistinguishability, nothing between the Jew and the Muslim. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1262

Categorization

• XREF: This performative elision of Jew and Muslim mirrors the larger antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge thesis across the Islamophobia-cluster books in this batch — the indistinguishability the book keeps arguing for is here enacted in scholarship.