The shift from ‘Jews and Arabs’ to ‘Jews of Islam’ erases 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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Arab-Israeli conflict has extinguished Jewish romanticized kinship with the Orient; Scholarly terminology shifted from Jews and Arabs to Jews of Islam, erasing the Arab. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 826; Discourse about ‘the Arab’ erases individual Arabs and their narratable histories. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 578

Broader Connections

• Scholarly terminology shifted from Jews and Arabs to Jews of Islam, erasing the Arab. #corroborates (0.97) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 826