Scholarly terminology shifted from Jews and Arabs to Jews of Islam, erasing the Arab.

Evidence

As well, Wasserstrom never engages the lexical shift that leads from Goiten’s jews and Arabs to Lewis’s jews of Islam. Between Muslim and Jew, the distance is never closed. And the Arab withdraws. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 826

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Edward Said’s Orientalism and the whole genealogy of how scholarly naming constructs political categories.
• DEEPTHINKING: The phrase ‘the Arab withdraws’ compresses a whole historiographical argument into three words: the shift in scholarly terminology itself performs the disappearance of the Arab from the Jew-Muslim relation. Requires sitting with what the lexical shift does, not just what it says.