Christian polemicists reversed the Qur’an’s own self-authentication by aesthetics

Evidence

It was supposed that its style gave a strong presumption of its human origin; it was too badly written to be of God. In this way the attitude of the Arab and the Muslim, and the assertion of the Qur’an itself, were exactly reversed. It is the Qur’an that says that it is its own proof, that issues the challenge to produce one revelation equal, in matter and expression, to those that it contains. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 330

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault cluster on how ‘Islam’ is constructed as the West’s constitutive outside — here via aesthetic contempt (barbaric style) rather than doctrine, echoing Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ framing where Muslim difference is pre-legal.
• SEED: Angle: aesthetic judgement (‘too badly written to be of God’) as an early race-making move — style-based exclusion prior to explicit theological refutation.