Hegel’s philosophy fixed the modern image of Muslims as fatalistic and purposeless

Evidence

If Kant invented Jewish law as sublime, and if Montesquieu invented despotism, theirs was undoubtedly a paving and a partaking of the ways. After them, though, it is no less undoubtedly Hegel who invented the Muslims. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 649

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the pattern of Orientalist inventions of the ‘other’ (Said’s Orientalism), and to the book’s recurring argument that Jew and Arab are co-constituted as enemies by European thought.
• SEED: Article angle: a genealogy of who ‘invented’ the stereotyping of various groups — Kant on Jews, Montesquieu on despotism, Hegel on Muslims — as a method for tracing intellectual responsibility.

Related

• Hegel invented the figure of the Muslim as Europe’s enemy (similarity 0.94)
• Hegel fused Kant and Montesquieu to tie despotism to Muslims and Jews (similarity 0.87)
• Hegel’s paired treatment of Jews and Muslims shaped later theory (similarity 0.84)
• Hegel linked Islam and Judaism by opposing both to Christianity (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel’s philosophy consigned Islam to historical irrelevance after its early contribution (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel paired Judaism and Islam under shared monotheistic servitude and sublimity (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel credited Muslim fanaticism for Islam’s rapid spread (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel scripted Islam as a superseded phase in world history. (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel classified Islam’s universalism as a crude, spiritless drive toward world dominion. (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel held that necessity turned the Jews into enemies of others (similarity 0.80)
• Despotism and fanaticism only later coagulated onto Islam and Jews in Hegel (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel credited the ban on graven images for both Jewish and Islamic religious pride. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel joined Kant and Montesquieu in linking Islam and Judaism to submission (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel saw Islam, like Judaism, as a pure unity of religious-political abstraction (similarity 0.78)