Islam’s military threat explains why Muslim dog-men outnumber Jewish ones in medieval texts

Evidence

Jewish dog-men appear in medieval texts with less frequency than their Muslim counterparts, which may be due to the threat that Islam posed militarily and politically, the social position of Jews in Christian communities, and the additional spaces in which anti-Jewish characters are found, including the bestiary. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 219

Categorization

• QUESTION: Implicitly asks what real-world factors amplified the monster-image, which could be an opening angle for the reader’s causal chapter.