Levi reads the Auschwitz Muslim as a messianic figure who lost the divine spark

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

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: The identification of a messiah ‘who attained a higher level of fame than any Jewish messiah since Jesus’ seems to point to Sabbatai Zevi, whose conversion to Islam is being mapped onto the Auschwitz Muslim — worth verifying.

Related

• Levi’s lost divine spark mirror Scholem’s messianic descent into Islam (similarity 0.89)
• Scholars read Sabbatai Zevi’s conversion through Christianity, erasing Islam’s significance (similarity 0.84)
• Scholarship has consistently evacuated the theological significance of Islam from messianism (similarity 0.84)
• Scholarly treatments of Sabbatai Zevi erase the Muslim context entirely (similarity 0.81)
• Kabbalistic divine-spark doctrine makes the Messiah descend into Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Scholem’s messianism makes the Messiah descend into exile and Islam to redeem divine sparks (similarity 0.78)