Dominican mission strategy required Arabic language schools and written polemics

Evidence

The Dominicans often preferred to preach to “captive” audiences of non-Christian subjects of Christian rulers. They also staged theological debates with prominent Muslim and Jewish leaders. To further their strategies, Dominican missionaries founded language schools (in particular, Arabic) and wrote polemical texts meant to provide “refutations” of Islam (and Judaism) ready to be deployed by Dominican missionaries. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 75

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes how modern Islamophobia discourse also built on expert-authored refutations and captive audiences.