Rosenzweig denied Islam’s capacity for love and neighborly relation
Evidence
For Rosenzweig, Islam is, strictly speaking, neither religion, as we have seen, nor politics. It is incapable of love, incapable of relating to the neighbor and to the world as Judaism and Christianity do: “the bond of the consummate and redemptive bonding of man and the world is to begin with the neighbor and ever more only with the neighbor, the well-nigh nighest” (234/G262). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 503
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing Rosenzweig’s actual argument that Islam cannot love the neighbor—what texts supports or contradicts this?