Kant grounded both Jewish enthusiasm and Muslim pride in one shared prohibition

Evidence

Perhaps,” Kant says, “there is no sublimer passage,” Stelle, “in the Jewish law than the command, ‘Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image,”’ Bildnis, “‘nor the likeness,”’ Gleichnis, “‘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,” verglich, “themselves with other peoples, or explain the pride,” Stolz, “which Mohammedanism inspires” (section 29). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 608

Categorization

• DEFINE: Anidjar mines Kant’s single command (the iconoclasm ban) as the joint genealogical root Kant himself assigns to both Jews and Muslims.
• XREF: Directly the antisemitism-Islamophobia genealogical spine the reader wants to anchor; connects to the Jew-Arab interchangeability thesis across the book.