European polemicists misread Muslim claims of scripture suppression

Evidence

Aquinas argued that, since the preceding prophets had not borne witness to Muhammad, the latter had corrupted the Scriptures, ‘as is clear to anyone looking into his law’; in consequence, he had astutely forbidden his followers to read our Bible. Here too only part of the picture was understood. … Muslims in fact believe that prophecies of Muhammad have been suppressed, and notably that Jesus foretold ‘an Apostle who shall come after Me and his name shall be Ahmad’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 306

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault thread on how ‘Islam’ is polemically constructed as the West’s constitutive outside — medieval Christian polemic anticipating Orientalist-manufactured images of Islam.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing later: how medieval polemic’s ‘Muslims forbid reading our Bible’ trope evolved into modern ‘Islam forbids critical reading’ discourse.