Medieval apologists may have blurred Qur’anic authority to treat it as human-made

Evidence

The failure to distinguish between the authority of the Qur’an, of the Prophet’s reported utterances, and of the Arabic commentators, may have been deliberate, intended to make it clear that all three were equally human artefacts; but, if so, this makes it impossible for us to tell now whether the Islamic attitude was clearly understood. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 220

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s claim that ‘Islam’ as constructed category gets flattened by Christian-European polemicists treating scripture, prophetic tradition, and commentary as one undifferentiated human text.
• QUESTION: Would be worth tracing whether this deliberate conflation recurs in later Orientalist and anti-Muslim polemic as a method of denying revelation’s distinctiveness.