ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |13 pages

Inter-Faith Strife

The Al-Azhar Discourse on Israel

chapter |21 pages

Hizballah and Israel

Strategic Threat on the Northern Border

chapter |13 pages

Israel and Pakistan

Public Rhetoric Versus Political Pragmatism

chapter |18 pages

Egypt's Policy Towards Israel

The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Constraints