As Tarek Fatah, the author of the provocative The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism, puts it, “by any rational standard, Muslims and Jews should have been, and could be, partners. Their faiths are very similar …There were times when Muslims and Jews even prayed together around the stone covered today by the Dome on the Rock [in Jerusalem].” Certainly in the imagination of western Christians at…
Ivan Kalmar
Ivan Davidson Kalmar teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His latest book, Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power, will be published by Routledge in 2011.