Hegel credited the ban on graven images for both Jewish and Islamic religious pride.

Evidence

Perhaps there is no sublimer passage in the Jewish law than the command, “Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything which is in heaven or in the earth or under the earth,” etc. This command alone can explain the enthusiasm that the Jewish people in their moral period felt for their religion, when they compared themselves with other peoples, or explain the pride which Mohammedanism inspires. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 592

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to prior reading on abrahamic aniconism and Hegel’s appropriation of religious difference between Jew and Muslim.