Jacques de Vitry alone among medieval writers attributed fatalism to Islam

Evidence

For (Muhammad) said that death was not to be feared, since God has foreseen the last day and end of everyone, which no one can escape; nor can man in any way prevent or anticipate the end which God infallibly foresaw. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 871

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