Informed medieval polemicists still clung to untenable anti-Muslim fables

Evidence

San Pedro had some doubts about the Maurus legend but felt sure that episodes told by ibn Ishaq (the delay in revelation over the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and the accusation by the Quraysh that Muhammad had a foreign teacher) implied the substantial truth of the main point of it. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2044 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval polemicists quietly dropped claims lacking cross-tradition confirmation; Medieval polemicists used Muslim sources to validate anti-Muslim legends — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2044; Seventeenth-century scholars still circulated fables about Islam for polemical purposes. (+4 more)

Related

• Medieval polemicists used Muslim sources to validate anti-Muslim legends (similarity 0.93)
• Medieval polemicists ignored known facts to fabricate Muslim heretical intent (similarity 0.91)
• Scholars perpetuated apocryphal Islamic legends despite knowing they lacked sources (similarity 0.90)
• Medieval Christian polemicists treated Christian and Muslim legends as mutually confirmatory (similarity 0.90)
• Medieval polemicists recycled general accusations of Muslim vice without personal knowledge (similarity 0.89)
• Even well-informed medieval authors chose implausible stories when framing Muslims (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval polemicists quietly dropped claims lacking cross-tradition confirmation (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval critics saw Islamic truths as deliberate bait for deception (similarity 0.88)
• Christian polemicists read Muslim sources as unwittingly confirming Christian legends (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval polemicists distinguished what Muslims believed from what they only thought they believed. (similarity 0.85)
• Vituperative anti-Islamic polemic persisted into the 1780s and 1790s. (similarity 0.84)
• Polemical scholars adopted textual accuracy only as a tactical weapon against Islam (similarity 0.83)
• An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350 (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval writers ignored Islamic ritual because praising it served no polemic purpose (similarity 0.83)
• Seventeenth-century scholars still circulated fables about Islam for polemical purposes. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Even well-informed medieval authors chose implausible stories when framing Muslims #corroborates (0.92)
• Medieval polemicists used Muslim sources to validate anti-Muslim legends #expands (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2044
• Medieval polemicists ignored known facts to fabricate Muslim heretical intent #expands (0.75)
• Seventeenth-century scholars still circulated fables about Islam for polemical purposes. #qualifies (0.72)
• European anti-Muslim polemic images persisted virtually unchanged from medieval to modern eras #expands (0.72)
• Thirteenth-century anti-Islamic polemics were still recycled by Luther and later eras #expands (0.72) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 63