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.