Christian polemicists caricatured Islamic paradise as crudely carnal to discredit it.

Evidence

The Chronicles of Theophanes Confessor describes Muhammad as “the precursor to the Antichrist,” and then goes on to describe heaven in lascivious terms. Like many Christian accounts of jannah, sex is described as a reward for committing violence against Christians: … [Muhammad] Taught his subjects that he who kills an enemy or is killed by an enemy goes to Paradise; and that this paradise was one of carnal eating and drinking and intercourse with women, and had a river of wine, honey, and milk, and that the women were not like the ones down here, but different ones, and that the intercourse was long-lasting and the pleasure continuous; and other things of profligacy and stupidity… . — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 130 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The carnal Paradise was the central symbol of Christian anti-Islam polemic; Medieval polemicists ridiculed Islamic paradise for its alleged carnal absurdities. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1251; Medieval Christian polemicists caricatured Muslim ablutions into a distorted parody. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1171 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Christian polemicists mocked Islam chiefly through exaggerated sexual caricatures. #corroborates (0.95)
• Christian writers framed Muslim paradise as carnal reward for killing Christians #complicates (0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 130