The Jew-Arab separation precedes and enables the theology-politics split

Evidence

I cannot conclude without pointing out that as Shakespeare writes and as the separation between the two Venetian enemies is reinscribed and sedimented, what comes undone with it is the unity of the theologicopolitical. What was previously considered a complex (if difficult) unity, the coming apart of which represented catastrophe or senselessness itself (“the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing-”), this unity of theology and politics has come apart in such a way as to become invisible even to those who argue against it. But this coming apart occurs in a particular staging, the staging of a separation that logically, historically, and rhetorically precedes the separation of theology from politics. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 554

The dual body of the enemy occurs at the moment when its salvation, as enemy body, will make it disappear. The two bodies are therefore associated at the very moment when their dissociation-the dissociation of theological from political-is asserted and denied. This is political theology at its best, but it is also political theology at its end. With it, Shakespeare traces the history of the concept of enemy. More importantly, perhaps, Shakespeare announces the modern separation of theology from politics at the same time that he demonstrates that at the historical root of the theologico-political, one does find two bodies, the body of the Jew and the body of the Moor, the Jew and the Arab. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 559

Categorization

• QUESTION: This inverts Schmitt’s usual priority — is Anidjar claiming the theological/political distinction is an aftereffect of the Jew/Muslim division, and is that the genealogical spine the whole bridge rests on?
• XREF: Directly states the geneaolocial claim that should anchor the other Islamophobia-cluster books in the batch.
• ADDENDUM: Core statement of the genealogical thesis anchoring the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge — the Jew embodies theological enemy, the Moor the political enemy, and their dissociation constitutes the modern split of theology from politics.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the separation of theology from politics is itself enacted across the two enemy bodies inverts the standard secularization narrative.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 554; Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 559