Maintaining that mainstream Islam is not inherently anti-Semitic and that Muslims have historically tolerated Jews as 'people of the Book'--at least until the advent of the Zionist national movement in Palestine, Maoz (Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Hebrew U., Jerusalem) introduces 15 essays by international scholars who sort out the myths from the realities of anti-Semitism in the Arab world. They shed light on the complex, changing attitudes toward Jews and Israel in case studies of Muslim-Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries/communities in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the US, showing that ideological-theological and strategic-pragmatic perspectives can radically differ in the context of contemporary Middle East conflicts and peace initiatives. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)