Christian missionaries deployed Jewish scholarship on Islam for conversion

Evidence

Geiger’s book on the Jewish roots of Islam, for example, was in fact translated into English in 1896 by Christian missionaries in Bangalore, in order to win Muslim converts. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1034 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominicans shifted missionary targets to protected Jews and Muslims to avoid martyrdom; Christian missionaries translated a Jewish book on Islam to win Muslim converts in India — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1034; Medieval Christian missionaries reconceived Muslim doctrines as partial truths to bridge toward conversion — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 995 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Christian missionaries translated a Jewish book on Islam to win Muslim converts in India #exemplifies (0.95) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1034