Interfaith study should serve understanding rather than conversion or polemic

Evidence

What in the past was frozen has begun at last to thaw; what the mediaevals studied we may study again, making use of what they did; but we may do it for its own sake, and without thought of propaganda, and without hatred. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1745

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the vault’s construction-of-the-enemy genealogy, suggesting scholars saw Islam as kin rather than constitutive outside.