The word ‘Muslim’ never appears in a book titled Musulman about concentration-camp inmates.

Evidence

Although the book-the narration of which takes place in Tel-Aviv and “in the immigrant mac abara at Abu-Kabir” after the 1948 war (86)-contains descriptions under which one may recognize familiar figures, the word “Muslim” (that is, “Musulman”) does not appear in the body of the text. … The Muslims were debilitated human creatures, too enfeebled to work and so doomed to die-of suffocation, of starvation, in the burning-pit or in the crematorium-because they were no longer of any use to the Germans. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 720

Categorization

• DEFINE: The German camp term for the debilitated prisoner doomed to death, derived over the Muslim signifier.
• XREF: Threads to Agamben’s Homo Sacer and the ‘Muselmann’ figure in Holocaust theory read elsewhere.