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27: 266:, Alyssa A. Lappen found it a "landmark book" that was both "extensive" and "scientific", and which "informs self-respecting scholars that they can no longer shamelessly blame Christianity as the sole source of antisemitism—or more importantly, that Islam does not and never had its own innate brand of loathing for the Jewish people." 219:. Those accounts are invariably cited in sermons during Friday prayers, thus assuring their universal diffusion among Muslim constituents and the constant poisoning of the souls of young and adult Muslims alike, something that renders their fundamentally negative attitudes to Jews and Israel unchangeable." 256:
that "one should not conflate Islam's mandates with the beliefs of the average "Muslim"; nor should all of these texts be construed as representative of all Muslims," while noting that the book "is a welcome contribution, in that it at least brings balance" to academia's "apologizing, distorting and
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praises the book for making its case with exhaustive use of original sources, "Anti-Semitic passages from the Koran, the hadith (collected anecdotes about the Muslim prophet Mohammed’s life), the sira (early biographies of Mohammed). Anti-Semitic essays, speeches and excerpted book passages by
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calls Bostom's book "important and deeply discouraging." Morris discusses a great deal of material that Bostom has omitted, concluding that in many ways the antisemitism of the Muslim world is even worse than portrayed in
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Muslim scholars, theologians and thinkers from the Middle Ages to the present. (and) Scholarly, witness and journalistic accounts of Muslim persecutions of and discrimination against Jews over more than 1,000 years."
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as a "collection of sources, Islamic and others, which testify to the long and sorry history of
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stereotypes that have become the Shari'a-based uncontested "truth" about the
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especially ignoring Islam's most authoritative texts regarding Jews."
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Index


Andrew G. Bostom
Antisemitism in Islam
Islamic history
Prometheus Books
ISBN
978-1591025542
OCLC
1158746917
The Legacy of Jihad
Andrew G. Bostom
Raphael Israeli
The Jerusalem Post
anti-Semitism
Islam
Hebrew University
Raphael Israeli
Islamic jurisprudence
Koran
Hadith
Sirah
Muhammad
Jewish
People of the Book
Benny Morris
The New Republic
Raymond Ibrahim
The Washington Times
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism
Islamic antisemitism

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