The Abrahamic naming exceeds empirical, identitarian, and historicist reading

Evidence

Insofar as it transcends each of those “fields,” the Abrahamic as condition reveals itself as exceeding legibility. It is, in other words, difficult to read. More than a historical moment (be it a general historical moment or a so-called “personal” or autobiographical moment in Jacques Derrida’s history), the Abrahamic instead constitutes the occasion for an interrogation of the empirico-transcendental distinction, opening onto “what constitutes our history and what produced transcendentality itsel£” And the Abrahamic naming, “the Jew, the Arab,” can no longer simply be empirical, identitarian, or historicist. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 249 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

However, some Jews were and are still viewed as outsiders, Orthodox Jews in particular. Likewise, not all Muslims will be permitted entrance into Whiteness should America adopt an Abrahamic national identity. Phenotype, religiosity, and political dissidence will likely remain litmus tests. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 976 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Abrahamic exceeds being merely empirical, historical, or identitarian — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 249; The shared figure of Abraham unsettles the Judeo-Christian hyphen and the politics of Europe — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 334; The Abrahamic reading rejects the linear progression from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 335 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• The Abrahamic exceeds being merely empirical, historical, or identitarian #corroborates (1.00) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 249
• The Abrahamic resists the linear progression from Judaism through Christianity to Islam #corroborates (0.92)
• The Abrahamic expansion of Whiteness still excludes phenotypically and religiously marked members #complicates (0.76) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 976
• Abrahamic identity framing is a strategy to depoliticize and deracialize Muslims #complicates (0.75)
• Whiteness may be reconstructed around Abrahamic identity to retain dominance #complicates (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1074
• Philology inherited religion’s historical worldview while losing its coherence #complicates (0.74) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 358
• The term Semitic fused biblical genealogy with linguistics and race #complicates (0.74)
• Muslims themselves unwittingly advance the Abrahamic racial-religious project through interfaith activism #complicates (0.73) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1005