Christians overlooked that orthodox Muslims also believed in bodily vision of God.
Evidence
With this garden of material delights it was usual to contrast the concept of a purely spiritual apprehension of God, the Beatific Vision of Christian tradition. It was not altogether realised that the religious and orthodox Muslim believes that he will see God with the eyes of the body. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 820
Categorization
- XREF: The misrecognition here — Christians attributing to Islam a pure materialism that even orthodoxy’s own doctrine did not hold — fits the vault’s pattern of Islam constructed to satisfy the West’s need for a sensuous outside.