Christians could only conceive Islam as derivative of Christian truth

Evidence

It was wholly and intimately connected with Christianity because it was made up, partly of assertions, and partly of denials, of the whole truth, and in either case stood in relation to truth. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1040

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault’s core genealogical claim (Anidjar) that ‘Islam’ is defined relationally as a corruption/negation of Christian truth — Islam has no independent standing.
• SEED: The framing of a rival religion as assertion-plus-denial of one’s own truth — a premodern template for how a dominant culture epistemically subordinates its Other — anchors an essay on religious construction of the constitutive outside.