Christian polemic framed Muhammad’s lack of miracles as itself miraculous but perverse

Evidence

Alan of Lille pithily expressed an idea which penetrated far beyond the immediate circle of Islamologists: “With them, miracles are worked by not working miracles ( fiunt miracula per antiphrasim).’ — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 429

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• XREF: Alan of Lille’s antiphrasis framing parallels Anidjar’s logic of how the ‘other’ is assigned a negative mirror-image of one’s own sacred signs — a perverse inversion of Christian miracle-making.