Enlightenment thinkers retained older anti-Muslim stereotypes

Evidence

The Enlightenment, however, did not witness the abandonment of older prejudices. In both philosophical and popular writings, unflattering images of Muslims and Islam persisted. In fact, we have plenty of examples of Enlightenment philosophers who reiterated negative stereotypes even as they articulated more positive appraisals. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 161

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enlightenment antislavery coexisted with racist assumptions about Africans; Enlightenment thinkers produced contradictory, instrumentally motivated views of Islam — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 91; Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Enlightenment thinkers produced contradictory, instrumentally motivated views of Islam #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 91
• Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them #corroborates (0.75)
• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means #expands (0.70)
• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them #expands (0.65) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims #expands (0.60)
• Enlightenment philosophers wavered between rational and superstitious treatments of Muhammad #complicates (0.55) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 360