Islamic Attitudes to Israel

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal <em>Israel Affairs</em>.</p>