Hegel claimed Jewish and Islamic religiosity precluded state-level mutual recognition
Evidence
Religion gets in the way, and under the theologico-political weight of a discordance, the (one) people and the (one) state, the “people as state,” crumbles. “The question arises how far a nomadic people, for instance, or any people on a low level of civilization, can be regarded as a state. As once was the case with the Jews and the Mohammedan people, religious views may entail an opposition at a higher level between one people and its neighbors and so preclude the general identity which is requisite for recognition.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 637
Categorization
- XREF: Direct parallel with the statelessness and exclusion arguments across the antisemitism-cluster; the paired exclusion of Jews and Muslims from state-recognition is the core genealogical claim.
- QUESTION: Pursue how this Hegelian pairing feeds later racialized statelessness discourse on both Jew and Arab.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 637