Hegel invented the figure of the Muslim as Europe’s enemy

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

• XREF: Directly continues the genealogical line this book argues: Kant invented Jewish law, Montesquieu invented despotism, Hegel invented the Muslims — the theoretical spine of the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge.
• QUESTION: What precisely is Anidjar’s evidence that Hegel ‘invented’ the Muslims as an analytical category, versus synthesized earlier anti-Islamic thought?