Levi’s lost divine spark mirror Scholem’s messianic descent into Islam

Evidence

The “divine spark,” which, Levi asserts, the Muslim has lost in his descent to the inferno of Auschwitz, corresponds with horrifying precision to what is “consumed in the consummation of history,” to the descent into Islam of the exemplary figure of the messiah “who attained a higher level of fame and influence than had any Jewish messiah since Jesus.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 774

Categorization

• XREF: Core corroborating anchor for the Islamophobia-antisemitism bridge thesis.
• SEED: Article angle: the historical figure called ‘the Jewish messiah who attained highest fame since Jesus’ names the descent point where Jew and Muslim fuse in this genealogy.