Hegel saw Islam, like Judaism, as a pure unity of religious-political abstraction

Evidence

The crisis of the theologico-political that takes place at this point is a sundering and a separation between politics and religion: “while the West began to shelter itself in a political edifice … the very opposite direction necessarily made its appearance in the world.” But the movement of a dissociation is yet more complex and can be said to take place as well within what Hegel calls “the East.” Hence if”only among the Jews have we observed the principle of pure unity elevated to a thought,” it is nonetheless the case that Islam partakes of that singular exclusivity. The difference, as we will see, is not essential, and it has to do only with universality. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 641

Categorization

• XREF: Anchors the genealogical bridge between how Judaism and Islam are theorized together in Western thought — the spine for the Islamophobia-cluster books.
• DEFINE: The unity-elevated-to-thought abstraction is the shared structural trait Hegel attributes to both monotheisms.