Attacking the Qur’an’s authority was a precondition for dismissing Islam’s social life

Evidence

What was generally understood was the importance of attacking the high authority of the Qur’an, even when it was not understood precisely how high that authority was claimed to be. Christians realised that the Law and faith which the Qur’an contains revealed alien patterns of thought and behaviour which interested them, but there was a failure to perceive the springs of the life of that society, so long as the Qur’an was not treated as the spiritual source of Islam. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 204

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the vault’s claim-productive mechanism: misconstructing the foundational text enables dismissing the whole constitutive social order, akin to how racialization of Muslims licenses liberal dismissal of their grievances.