A fabricated accusation against Aishah entered Latin anti-Islamic literature through one translator

Evidence

The credit for this absurd, nasty and gratuitous invention (the final point in which would make nonsense of the entire story) must go to Peter of Toledo, in whose translation alone it occurs. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 582

Categorization

• SEED: The fact that one man’s invented slur could propagate through centuries of Islamophobic discourse is a strong throughline for a piece on the genealogy of fabricated anti-Islamic claims.