Islamic Attitudes to Israel

Drawing on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam this collection of essays provides a fresh and highly topical examination of the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective. The essays are divided into two distinct sections. The first deals with issues relating to contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations and, in particular, looks at the attitude among opinion-makers and religious institutions and leaders in the Muslim world towards the Jewish state. Such key issues 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 until the present day.Karsh, Efraim is the author of 'Islamic Attitudes to Israel' with ISBN 9780415440257 and ISBN 0415440254.