Hegel grouped Judaism and Islam together under servitude to one God

Evidence

By the time of the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, the main affect associated with Islam has thus expectedly become fear. “In the Islamic doctrine there is merely the fear of God.” This translation of affect from “fanaticism” to “fear” does not imply the cancellation of the prior term, nor does it erase the relevance of the sublime. It is in fact in a section on “the religion of sublimity” that Hegel brings those affects, Judaism, and Islam, into the peculiar togetherness we have been following. The “servitude,” common to both Islam and Judaism, servitude to the one God, institutes incomparability and continues to diminish the distance or the proximity between them-the sublime is, of course, about the proper distance from the object. It is very much a matter of negotiating space between or within, and Hegel explains later that “the formalism of constancy which we find in the Jewish spirit in reference to its religion” can be observed “in the same way as in Islam we find the formalism of expansion” (742/G628). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 644

Categorization

  • XREF: Core genealogical bridge-material: both monotheisms joined under servitude, formalism of constancy vs. formalism of expansion — a pair other Islamophobia-cluster books could cite back to.
  • QUESTION: How does the constancy-versus-expansion formal pair map onto later Western distinctions between stable Jew and expansionist Muslim?