Medieval anti-Islamic polemic read the Qur’an’s own approval of the Bible as self-invalidating

Evidence

It is not likely that he would have thought differently, had he had a more accurate translation before him. The Qur’an, he continued, confirmed the authority of the earlier Testaments as prior to its own, ‘not only for the past, but for the present’. By guaranteeing the Scriptures, it invalidated itself, and yet, ‘so far as the visions of such a man could’, its confirmation of the Scripture held good. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 298

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• XREF: Connects to the vault’s existing genealogy of how ‘Islam’ is constructed as the West’s constitutive outside through theological-legal argument.