New Ground Breaking Islamic Study

"Stimulating and informative: a fascinating and disturbing voyage of historical discovery... It is magnificent!" -- Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill

Islamic antisemitism is as old as Islam itself, and is not a mere borrowing from non-Muslim sources, as has been claimed. THE LEGACY OF ISLAMIC ANTISEMITISM: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History,  (Prometheus Books, Hardcover, June 5, 2008),   provides comprehensive, meticulously documented evidence that a readily discernible, uniquely Islamic antisemitism -- specific Muslim hatred of Jews -- has been expressed continuously since the advent of Islam. Important examples of anti-Semitic motifs in the foundational Muslim texts and jurisprudence are presented. These primary sources, and seminal secondary analyses translated here for the first time into English, detail the sacralized rationale for Islam’s anti-Jewish bigotry. Numerous complementary historical accounts illustrate the resulting the plight of Jewish communities in the Muslim world across space and time, culminating in the genocidal threat posed to the Jews of Israel today. The book debunks the conventional wisdom which continues to assert that Muslim Jew hatred is entirely a 20th century phenomenon, a loose amalgam of re-cycled medieval Christian Judeophobic motifs, calumnies from the Czarist Russia "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and standard Nazi propaganda, that only arose after the advent of the Zionist movement and the protracted Arab-Jewish conflict over all of the lands comprising the original 1922 Mandate for historical Palestine. Scholars, educators, and interested lay readers will find this collection an invaluable resource for understanding the phenomenon of Muslim antisemitism, past and present.

 

THE LEGACY OF ANTISEMITISM: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History

Andrew Bostom

Prometheus Books; Harcover

1-59102-554-0

$39.95/768 pages

On Sale:  June 5, 2008

 

 

Media Availability:  Beginning June 5, 2008

 

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