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Maimonides' attitude toward other religions was generally negative. He believed that Christians and Muslims hated and persecuted the Jews because of jealousy that God had given the Jews the Torah. Yet he praised both Christianity and Islam as harbingers of the Messiah in that they spread monotheistic religion throughout the world. Halakhically, he declared that Christians were idol-worshipers, while Muslims were not. But his philosophical-theoretical attitude towards Islam was much more negative than his attitude towards Christianity. Posits that this was due to his own experience of Islamic persecution in Spain. Describes the Almohad persecutions (massacres and mass conversions) and Maimonides' responses to Islamic polemical writings against Judaism.