The Jew and the Arab name the theological-political question of Europe

Evidence

The pursuit of Abraham is the pursuit of a name that works the texts and that raises while renewing it the question of the rapport of religion and politics, the question of the theologico-political. This question is the Abrahamic, which worries and unsettles the hyphen of the Judea-Christian in its positive and negative incarnations, which worries and unsettles, at least since the biblical Abraham, the being-Christian and the being-political of Europe, as well as the meaning of the words “Judaism,” “Christianity,” “Islam.” Among the names that are deployed by the Abrahamic, “the Jew, the Arab” situates the insistence and the importance of a reading of the three religions, a reading that would not gather them in an illusory unity. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 334

Categorization

• XREF: This is the closest statement in the chapter to the core thesis that the Judeo-Christian hyphen unsettled by the Arab is the theoretical spine connecting antisemitism and Islamophobia scholarship in this batch.
• SEED: The Judeo-Christian hyphen as contested frontier: the Arab as what troubles Europe’s theological-political self-constitution is a stronger framing than ‘antisemitism plus Islamophobia’.