Alfonso’s ideology assembled preexisting anti-Islamic polemical strands rather than originating them

Evidence

Alfonso did not invent this ideology, of course; he wove it together of familiar strands: denigration of Islam’s prophet, affirmation of Visigothic Christian rights to rule over Iberia. Over the course of the thirteenth century, the various strands begin to come together. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 908

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the vault’s genealogical method: tropes traced as recombinable strands, not free inventions — same approach Anidjar uses for the false-prophet figure.