Biography of Muhammad served as weaponized anti-Islamic polemic

Evidence

THE life of Muhammad was seen as an essential disproof of the Islamic claim to Revelation. It was often treated as the most important disproof of all. To this end writers believed and wished to show that Muhammad was a low-born and pagan upstart, who schemed himself into power, who maintained it by pretended revelations, and who spread it both by violence and by permitting to others the same lascivious practices as he indulged in himself. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 449

Categorization

• XREF: The template of Muhammad-as-cunning-violent-lascivious-upstart is the mediaeval ancestor of the modern ‘Racial Muslim’ figure Aziz documents — direct genealogy for the vault thread.