European writers explained Muhammad’s marriage laws as mere licentiousness

Evidence

Mahomets stomack grew weak, and one sort of meat begun to loath him; Chodaige ( =Khadijah) was stale, and others fancied him: he therefore purpos’d in his Law (then in hatching?) to allow all sorts of carnall liberty: and to incourage them by his example, solemnly … espoused Aysce ( =‘A’ishah) the beloved child of his sonne in law Abubocher … — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1573

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• XREF: connects to: One medieval writer read polygamy as Islamic law’s cure for covetousness