Geiger saw Islam-Judaism ties as unbroken where Christianity was born from rupture

Evidence

By contrast, “while brutal outbreaks and persecutions occurred under Islam, importunate attempts to convert, refute, find fault with, and tease [Jews] hardly upset the connection between Islam and Judaism.” For Geiger, the indissoluble links that bound Judaism and Islam together stand in marked contrast to the breech birth that constitutes the origins of relations between Christianity and Judaism. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 373

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in Jewish-Muslim relations as counterposed to Christian-Jewish polemics; resonates with geographies of tolerance in Islamic Spain versus Christian Europe.
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone working on comparative religious toleration — the Islam-allows-conversion-lessons-by-persuasion-but-no-breach framing is a useful counter to the ‘clash of civilizations’ folk model.