Chroniclers staged enemy mothers citing scripture to concede Christian superiority

Evidence

At this point Tudebodus indulges in high melodrama. He has Curbaan’s mother arrive in tears, begging him, “in the names of the gods,” not to fight with the Franks. When Curbaan replies that his army is bigger and stronger than that of the Christians, his mother retorts that their God fights for them; as proof she cites King David (i.e., the Psalms): “disperse the nations that do not invoke Your name.” — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 635

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the rhetorical device of having the enemy themselves testify to Islam’s inferiority, comparable to the trope genealogies mapped in vault claims via Anidjar/Aziz/Razack about how the West framed Islam by putting words in its mouth.