Christians condemned Islam’s situational revelations as self-evidently self-condemning.

Evidence

Adultery apart, the Latins were genuinely scandalised by the Islamic conception of ad hoc revelations given in response to political or social problems of the moment. For the Muslim, a revelation that responded to the circumstances of a particular moment was normal, whereas to the Christian mind such a thing seemed to be its own condemnation. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 196

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the vault cluster: the refusal to accept that the Other’s authoritative text is situated and responsive marks a deep epistemic asymmetry that parallels how Islam is constituted as the West’s inverse. Ties to Anidjar’s genealogy of Jew/Arab enemy-construction.
• QUESTION: This contrast between situational Islamic revelation and the ‘sent’ Christian text is a genuinely deep epistemological point worth chasing — does a text authorized by being situated in time and circumstance versus a text that arrives whole conflict at a structural level, and does that map onto later colonial temporalities of the ‘backward East’?