In the following years, Berlin took on the task of distributing Islam and Judaism. The Nazis' efforts to mobilize Arabs against Jews had shown them that Muslims did not understand and rejected their racial antisemitism...
David Motadel refers to Islam and Judaism as "One of the most significant examples of this kind of religiously charged anti-Jewish propaganda among Muslims" while historian Jeffrey Herf has characterized it as "one of the founding texts of the Islamist tradition, one that defined the religion of Islam as a source of hatred of the Jews."...
The publisher of Islam and Judaism was Mohamad Ali al-Taher, Director of the Palestinian-Arab Information Office in Cairo.
Al-Taher was a prominent journalist from Palestine who had lived for a long time in Cairo and was close to the Muslim Brotherhood. He attended the Jerusalem Islamic Conference in 1931 and was one of the better-known participants in the Bloudan event of 1937 where he joined Propaganda committee established there...
But who was this "distinguished" Arab to whom authorship of Islam and Judaism is attributed? Although this secret was revealed neither in Cairo in August 1937 nor a month later in Bloudan, people in Berlin believed they knew who it was. In 1938, the Berlin-based publishing house, Junker and Dünnhaupt Verlag, published the whole pamphlet under the title Islam-Judentum. Aufruf des Großmufti an die islamische Welt im Jahre 1937 ("Islam-Judaism - Appeal of the Grand Mufti to the Islamic World in 1937") ...