Islamic Attitudes to Israel / Edition 1

by Efraim Karsh, P.R. Kumaraswamy

Overview

This book draws on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam. These highly topical essays examine the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective.

Divided into two distinct sections, the first section of the book deals with issues relating to contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations and, in particular, looks at the attitude towards the Jewish state amongst opinion-makers, religious institutions and leaders in the Muslim world. Key issues such as the Islamic attitude to Palestinian suicide-bombing, and Arab anti-Semitism are addressed here. The second section examines the attitude of key Muslim nations – Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan – to the Jewish state, and charts the evolving, bilateral relationship between these nations and Israel from the birth of the Jewish State in 1948 up to the present day.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415440257
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/21/2008
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karsh, Efraim; Kumaraswamy, P.R.

Table of Contents

1. The Long Trail of Islamic Anti-Semitism2. Fundamentals of the Modern Muslim-Jewish Polemic3. The 'Ulama’ and the Cult of Death in Palestine4. Inter-Faith Strife: Al-Azhar Discourse on Israel5. Political Islam and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict6. Hizballah and Israel: Strategic Threat on the Northern Border7. Iran, Israel and the Middle East Conflict8. Israel and Pakistan: Public Rhetoric versus Political Pragmatism9. The Republic of Indonesia and Israel10. Policy Toward Israel: The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Constraints11. How Has Turkey Viewed Israel?