Accusations of sexual license marked peoples as subhuman and incapable of theology

Evidence

Another view was to see his teaching, less as calculated for its hearers, than as the inevitable product of his salacious mind: homo totus lubricus, he ‘promised for beatitude what was predominant in his most carnal mind’. These views were not incompatible; he was an animal man himself, and he spoke to his like, anzmalis, iste homo animalibus loquens. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 828 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grotesque bodily corruption marked Jews and Muslims as subhuman — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 169; Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race; Medieval polemicists sexualized and demeaned Muhammad’s marriage to discredit him — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 752 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Christian writers treated Muhammad’s sensuality as proof he was subhuman #exemplifies (0.93) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 828