Kant’s juxtaposition of Islam and Judaism cannot be explained by shared iconoclasm alone

Evidence

My lack of competence, among other reasons, prevents me from answering these questions in any satisfYing manner. Moreover, I have been unable to find assistance in any discussion of this famous and frequently discussed passage of Kant on the Bilderverbot, any discussion that would account for the juxtaposition, indeed, the comparison of Islam and Judaism in it. The obviousness of the stringent enforcement, the wellknown Abrahamic (if notably not Christian) iconoclasm of both Judaism and Islam, hardly strikes one as sufficient in order to account for the natUre of the bond at the heart of an analysis that seems to suffer only a multiplication of distinctions and differences. Could the two religions, in this context, ever amount to the same? Could a harmonious unity around the divine command be produced at the very moment that the “most sublime” example (but is it an example, merely an example?) is presented? — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 614

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the theoretical spine reading of Kant’s Bilderverbot passage that other antisemitism-Islamophobia books in this batch could cite back to.