This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the cc-by-nc License. * A draft of this essay was presented at the lucis conference: Common Ground? Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle East, 26-27 September 2013, University of Leiden. For their generous invitation and great hospitality I thank Heleen Murre-van den
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