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“This Is Just Where We Are in History” Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Temporality, and Modalities of Solidarity

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Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens. I argue that while at first blush my Muslim interlocutors appear to read their community, in some historical time-frames, as being in a position of relative disadvantage in comparison to that of their Jewish counterparts, further analysis of their understanding of the positionalities of British Jews and British Muslims reveals a theorization that conveys a strong sense of solidarity with British Jewish citizens and unequivocally conceptualizes them as a political minority. I also suggest that these comparative reflections on the minority condition bear a productive potential for drawing public attention to specific challenges that different minority groups face.

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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13

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231-249

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978-90-04-51432-4

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Egorova, Yulia “This Is Just Where We Are in History” Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Temporality, and Modalities of Solidarity. Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience. Brill. 2022: 231-249.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1163/9789004514331_012