Jamal Awil

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Jewish geographic dispersion fueled medieval Christian obsession with them. [causal]

Norman Cohn posits, in the face of this miraculous cooperation of Jews and Saracens in the popular demonology of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, that the only reason Christians were somewhat more obsessed with Jews was that they “lived scattered through Christian Europe.”

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 97