Christian polemicists could separate true Qur’anic statements about Christ from false ones

Evidence

Ricoldo, here de Pennis’ sole source, had avoided doing just that, by using every agreeable quotation directly for some disagreeable controversial purpose. De Pennis, in fact, followed the plan of the reprobatio, although at much greater length, when he simply separated the true and false statements in the material he was reading, and treated the former quite uncontroversially as statements of fact. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 957