Interfaith polemical practice drove theological interest in Islamic predestinarianism.

Evidence

This straightforward argument developed naturally, as a criticism of the mechanics of predestination of souls. San Pedro, who alone of mediaeval authors of this period gave much attention to the problem, said expressly that his interest sprang out of his actual controversial practice. This can hardly have been common experience, since it is not reflected comparably elsewhere. There is some resemblance between San Pedro’s interests and Lull’s; Lull had seen and rejected the Islamic attribution of the authorship of evil acts to God as part of a refusal to conceive any limitation to His power; San Pedro’s arguments also centred round the qualities of God. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 876

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islamic predestination was read as denying human moral responsibility