Medieval Christian apologists mocked Islamic reasoning with analogy-based counterattacks

Evidence

Ricoldo was fond of the counter-attack upon the Islamic interpretation; for example, he said that to assert that God has no Son because He has no wife is like saying that He is not living because He does not draw breath. He used the Trinitarian images to defend the reasonableness of Christian teaching: the light and heat of a fire can be communicated separately, yet are not separate from the fire itself. He also made an image for the Incarnation, in order to defend the Crucifixion: a king might send his words in a book, and the book be burned, but his words would not burn. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1012

Categorization

• XREF: The rhetorical construction of Islam as irrationalism mirrors the vault’s claims about how ‘Islam’ is produced as a category against Christian reason.