Christian typology historically coupled Jews and Muslims as carnal children of Abraham.

Evidence

The Abrahamic exposes us to the nonfigure that was long ago inscribed and erased in “the fold of this Abrahamic or Ibrahimic moment, folded over and again by the Gospels between the two other ‘religions of the Book.”’ It was inscribed and erased by “Christian typologists [who] also used Esau, Pharaoh, and Herod to couple the Jew and the Muslim as carnal children of Abraham facing each other across the world-historic break effected by the lncarnation.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 338

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier discussion of the Jew-Arab pairing as a Christian construction; also evokes postcolonial readings of Christianity’s self-definition against its ‘carnal’ others.