Islamic veneration of Christ as a pure man struck medieval monks as blasphemy

Evidence

In contrast to this we should remember the monk who spoke of his sudden horror when he heard a darwish at the door of the house in Constantinople utter the ‘blasphemy’ that Christ was a pure man. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 968

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