Medieval Christian accounts of Muslim disputants are constructed strawmen

Evidence

Lull’s work is so individual that it is usually impossible to distinguish recognisably Islamic terms in the language, and often in the thought, of the Muslims whose arguments he represents in some of his disputationes. These were imaginary conversations in which the Muslim participants were never very successful; in a public debate on neutral ground in real life, they might have done a great deal better. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 682

Categorization

• XREF: A 13th-century precursor of what Aziz’s Racial Muslim and the vault’s anti-Muslim canon theory describe: the ‘Muslim’ as a projection whose speech is authored by the Christian — Muslims are granted voice only to lose the debate.
• DEFINE: Illustrates the constructed ‘strawman Muslim’ — the other who exists rhetorically precisely so the West can defeat him.