Fringe frontier Christian communities generated polemical slanders later scholars universalized

Evidence

It seems clear that the assertion arises from common Christian malice; it is not difficult to imagine the venomous feelings towards Islam which may have prevailed among those whose background was Mozarab and who lived on the verge of dar al-Islam. It is not an attractive picture. The French monk would have been easily imposed upon, since he would see the sincerity of gossipers who believed their own exaggerated assertions. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 785

Categorization

• XREF: The Mozarab-on-the-verge-of-dar-al-Islam as generator of exaggerations parallels contemporary boundary-dwelling producers of Islamophobic lore.