Defining Neighbors. Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter - Jonathan Marc Gribetz

144 • ChAPTEr 4 al-­ʿarab, the “lands of the arabs,” who converted to the Jewish reli- gion. he explains that “Judaism is ancien ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 145 “some european writers think that the Jews [come] from the arabs.”^47 Makaryus highlights the m ...

146 • ChAPTEr 4 culture and to show that arabs were just as capable of societal prog- ress as their european counterparts, if no ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 147 rights to others, as is clear in France, austria, and america, and as is obvious as well in egy ...

148 • ChAPTEr 4 What was implicit in the 1906 article on Suares is explicit in this 1913 article on the Jews of France: the Jews ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 149 brethren in their abilities.”^62 For rida and al-­Manār, as for other con- tributors to these j ...

150 • ChAPTEr 4 as it was expounded in al-­Muqtaṭaf, this theory was meant to offer further proof that Jewish philosophy is best ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 151 In a 1908 volume of al-­Manār, the condition of the Jews is discussed in the course of rida’s Q ...

152 • ChAPTEr 4 contends that, from his perspective, Islam requires “belief in God and in the Last Day, as well as faith in [His ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 153 that mirrors certain eighteenth- and nineteenth- century european en- lightenment writings.^74 ...

154 • ChAPTEr 4 harmful. For this reason, we find that this people is oppressed by all peoples and nations that do not extend to ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 155 rothschild banking family.^76 this article, “the house of rothschild: the Most renowned Financi ...

156 • ChAPTEr 4 “even during the pre- Islamic era.”^78 Indeed, soon after the Jews’ arrival in the Arabian Peninsula, to which t ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 157 like. the Jews did not bear this disgrace patiently but rather con- spired against their enemie ...

158 • ChAPTEr 4 discussion extends beyond France and into europe more broadly. the history of europe’s Jews, the author explains ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 159 On the one hand, he acknowledges that they fared better in the Muslim world (most notably Spain ...

160 • ChAPTEr 4 built upon the torah and there is nothing in the torah that requires or permits the murder of children for a rel ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 161 only is Judaism not a murderous religion; it is, in fact, “the source of law and the foundation ...

162 • ChAPTEr 4 the integration of contemporary european biblical scholarship’s claims into traditional Islamic anti- Jewish pol ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 163 “religiously” about the matter. the Jews, according to rida, say that the restoration of their ...