Llull’s Saracen admits logic contradicts Islam, fueling the irrationality charge

Evidence

It is true that among us there are differing beliefs with respect to the glory of Paradise, for some believe it will be as I said, and this they take from a literal interpretation of the Koran, which is our law, of the Proverbs of Muhammad [the Hadîth], and of commentators’ glosses on the Koran and the Proverbs. But there are others among us who take this glory morally and interpret it spiritually, saying that Muhammad was speaking metaphorically to people who were backward and without understanding; and in order to inspire them with a love of God he recounted the above-mentioned glory. And therefore those who believe this say that in Paradise there will be no glory of eating or of lying with women, nor of the other things mentioned above. And these men are natural philosophers and great scholars, yet they are men who in some ways do not follow too well the dictates of our religion, and this is why we consider them as heretics, who have arrived at their heresy by studying logic and natural science. And therefore it has been established among us that no man dare teach logic or natural science publicly. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1323

Categorization

• XREF: Directly grounds and extends the ‘Islam is fundamentally irrational’ trope already traced in Anidjar and Aziz within this reader’s vault.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the genealogy in the reader’s mapped claims about where modern Islamophobic tropes originate in medieval polemic.
• QUESTION: Llull places this ‘no one dare teach logic publicly’ confession in his own invented Muslim’s mouth — is that a real feature of medieval Muslim intellectual life he knew of, or pure projection?