The Islamic subject became a distinct fixed human type only in the nineteenth century

Evidence

With the “faithful resignation” of the Muslims, we are also brought back to (and beyond) the problems raised by Nathan Blumenthal regarding Israel, Palestine, and Israeli literature and culture. To what extent has the word “Muslim” become “part of our cultural history”? What of “the Jew, the Arab,” then, what of Muslims in Israeli literature? By now, it should be dear that the question I have wished to raise can no longer maintain itself as the slightly more explored one of “The Arab in Israeli literature.” The enemy draws away, and indeed, the question raised by the Muslims has a pervasive, if vanishing aspect, since the “ferocious irony” of which Agamben speaks has made it impossible to know whether the Muslim is an Arab, a Jew, a Christian, and even a man or a woman. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 716 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Oriental’s status as a separate fixed subspecies emerged only in the nineteenth century — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 178; Late-nineteenth-century Darwinian race science underpinned homo islamicus typologies; Da’wa became doctrinally elaborated only in the late nineteenth century. (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Homo islamicus as a separate human type emerged only in the nineteenth century #corroborates (0.97)
• The figure of the Muslim transcends fixed ethnic and gender identity #complicates (0.74) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 716
• Religion rather than nationality has been the primary basis of identity in Islam #complicates (0.71)