Christian religious tradition links orientalist portrayals of Muslims and Jews.

Evidence

One area deserving of more serious attention is the role of religion as one of the primary referents of orientalist discourse. Indeed, it is the Christian religious tradition that forms the missing link explaining the necessary, rather than accidental, connection in orientalism between representations of Muslims and representations of Jews. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier work on sacrificial ritual and on tamarisk trees as infrastructure—both hinge on religion as an under-read causal force in cultural phenomena.