Jewish laws, in their attitude to Islam, are concerned with Islam's reservations about polytheism idolatry, the subsequent implications for the favorable response of Jews to Islam, and the unfavorable response to Christianity. Ashkenazic or Sephardic halakhists' responses to Islam should be understood contextually. Several issues that were outside the halakhic context and had to be treated with Christianity were not significant when halakhists debated about Islam, or were non-existent at the ...