Christian missionaries translated a Jewish book on Islam to win Muslim converts in India

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

Categorization

• CANDY: A delightfully strange fact - missionaries in Bangalore used scholarship showing Islam’s Jewish roots as a conversion weapon against Muslims.