Ideological study of Islam is fundamentally alike across Marxist and medieval Christian frames

Evidence

But what was to be made of a doctrine that denied the divinity of Christ and the fact of his crucifixion, but acknowledged his virgin birth and his special privileges as a prophet of God; that treated the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God, but gave sole authority to a volume which intermingled confusingly the teachings of both Testaments; that accepted the philosophically respectable doctrine of future rewards and punishments, but affronted philosophy by suggesting that sexual enjoyment would form the chief delight of Paradise ? — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 29 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islam’s selective agreement with Christianity defied medieval categorization — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 29

Related

• Islam’s selective agreement with Christianity defied medieval categorization (similarity 0.93)
• Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.83)
• Both medieval Christianity and Islam defined each other by disagreement, not overlap (similarity 0.82)
• The Christian-Muslim divide turns on different models of revelation (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Islam and Christendom were structurally opposite societies (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Christians could find Islamic and Christian God concepts nearly identical (similarity 0.82)
• Islam was judged deficient for differing from Christian structures (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians held an irreducibly equivocal attitude toward Qur’anic Christology (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians understood Islam only as a distorted copy of Christianity (similarity 0.81)
• Christians could only conceive Islam as derivative of Christian truth (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christian views of Islam mixed praise with condemnation. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christian critics mirrored modern assumptions about Muslim shrine devotion (similarity 0.80)
• Orthodox Islam and Christianity each deemed the other’s core doctrine heretical (similarity 0.80)
• By 1250 the unity-of-God doctrine was common Christian knowledge about Islam (similarity 0.80)
• Islam posed the most far-reaching problem medieval Christendom faced (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Islam’s selective agreement with Christianity defied medieval categorization #complicates (0.80) — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 29