Christian Europe’s political existence depends constitutively on Islam as enemy

Evidence

Europe, and with it, the political, “nothing more and nothing less than the political as such … would no longer exist without the figure of the enemy,” without this figure of the enemy that is lslam. If such is, indeed, the case, it would demonstrate, were it still needed, that Islam is not only at the source of “our history,” but also that it is one of the “conditions” of the history I am trying to read throughout this book. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 285

Categorization

• XREF: This is exactly the genealogical claim the reader wants as corroborating anchor — pairs with Schmitt on the political and with books arguing Europe was shaped against Islam.