Bestiaries transferred Jewish monstrous symbols onto Muslim characters

Evidence

Both Jews and Muslims appeared as dog-headed men in a number of medieval texts and paintings that identified them as monsters associated with the devil. The association of dogs with Jews continues to the modern period; and while I do not provide a complete anthropology here, I would like to point to the importance of this particular anti-Semitic hate sign, which contributes to, and is supported by, Muslim dog-headed monsters. The association of dogs with Satan informs this relationship: The dog was interpreted as a manifestation of the Devil, especially in medieval times. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 226 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval writers represented Jewish and Muslim bodies as jointly diseased and degenerate; Medieval art and text conflated Jews and Muslims into a single Saracen body; Jews and Muslims shared a canine monstrous identity in medieval literature — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 226 (+5 more)

Related

• Medieval writers represented Jewish and Muslim bodies as jointly diseased and degenerate (similarity 0.91)
• Jewish and Muslim symbols were deliberately conflated in Renaissance painting (similarity 0.89)
• Medieval bestiaries transferred Jewish animal-symbols onto Muslims as dog-headed monsters (similarity 0.88)
• Jews and Muslims shared a canine monstrous identity in medieval literature (similarity 0.88)
• Bestiaries cast both Jews and Muslims as dogs and dog-headed men (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval art and text conflated Jews and Muslims into a single Saracen body (similarity 0.88)
• Dog-headed men served medieval art as both Jew and Muslim monsters of evil (similarity 0.87)
• Jews and Muslims shared the dog-headed monster linked to the devil in Christendom (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim monsters were depicted as cannibals who ate their enemies. (similarity 0.84)
• Christian art associated Jews with barking dogs and cannibal violence (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval passion plays made Muhammad the god of Christ’s Jewish and Roman tormentors (similarity 0.83)
• The hyena’s canine kinship inspired the Jewish dog-headed men of medieval lore (similarity 0.83)
• Muslims were ideologically collapsed into heretics, Jews, and the devil by Christian writers. (similarity 0.81)
• Islam’s military threat explains why Muslim dog-men outnumber Jewish ones in medieval texts (similarity 0.81)
• Fantasy tropes shaped how Orientalism constructed Jewish and Muslim men (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Renaissance painting Orientalized Jews by also turbaning them like Muslims #corroborates (0.75)
• Jewish and Muslim symbols were deliberately conflated in Renaissance painting #corroborates (0.60)
• Jews and Muslims shared a canine monstrous identity in medieval literature #expands (0.55) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 226
• Blood-libel imagery linked Jews and Muslims eating Christian children. #expands (0.50) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 232
• Medieval bestiaries deployed the fox as an anti-Semitic hate sign for the Jew #qualifies (0.45)