Islamophobia scholarship often treats medieval Christianity as a united whole against Muslims

Evidence

This schism between Orthodox and Latin Christianity is significant for any discussion of the historical dynamics of Christianity. In contemporary scholarship about the history of Christian Islamophobia, many authors when describing the period largely ignore this inter- Christian tension. Some authors of this bent are Anidjar, Kumar, Todd, and Allen. For instance, in Anidjar’s book The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy, he argues his case with the claim from another author that Muslims were a “common enemy” against all of Christendom (Anidjar 2003). — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople, 25

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to scholarly debates about whether pre-modern religious conflict was primarily inter-faith or intra-faith — parallels with Protestant-Catholic tensions in Reformation scholarship. — connects to: Medieval Christendom defined itself by expelling threatening forces beyond its perimeter; Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 157; Christians treated all non-Christian monstrous figures as interchangeable enemies (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Christian infighting outweighed the shared threat of Islam #complicates (0.85) — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople, 45
• Historical scholarship overstates Christianity’s unity against adversaries. #expands (0.80) — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople, 62