Renaissance artists represented Jews with Muslim dress to create a shared Jewish-Muslim monster.

Evidence

In Christian art, it is a common practice to represent Biblical Jews as if they were Muslims.” In some cases, Turkish imagery was incorporated into the Jewish figures: “In David and Uriah, for instance the two men’s Ottoman-style turbans play a dominant part on the composition.” Here, Jewish and Muslim imagery is used much as it was in the Renaissance—to create a Jewish Muslim. In the Renaissance, these figures are not Jewish Sarrazins but Jewish Turks—Jews wearing turbans, Ottoman coats, and other Turkish accoutrements. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 245

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s existing thesis about Muslim monster manufacturing - the Jew fuses with the Muslim as one undifferentiated enemy. Also links to chapter on medieval anti-Semitic tropes.
• DEFINE: Introduces the analytical term ‘Jewish Muslim’ - the fused image combining both figures into one monstrosity.