Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Religion
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,3 (1994) 253-270
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Islam Relations Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Judaism
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations History 1945-
Abstract:
Traces the evolution of the image of the Jews in the Islamic religious tradition, focusing on its transformation in Islamist discourse in modern Egypt, in which anti-Jewish attitudes were used as a weapon in the war against Israel. Examines the book "Our Struggle with the Jews, " published in the early 1950s by Sayyid Qutb, an influential Islamist and spiritual leader of the Muslim Brothers (who was executed in 1966), which portrayed the Jew as the ultimate source of adversity, plotting to destroy the Muslim world. His second book, "Signposts along the Way, " marked a radicalization of his doctrine, which was taken up by the Society of Muslims movement (founded in 1967) and by its leader in the 1970s, Shukri Mustafa. Remarks that the new rhetorical strategy of radical Islamists suggests that the image of the Jew as enemy has become more than a political response to Israel. It is used as a metaphor of evil in the main "jihad" (war) against secular Egyptian society.
DOI:
10.1006/reli.1994.1022
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