Medieval Christian art equated Jews and Muslims under shared imagery

Evidence

As stated in previous chapters, in the Middle Ages, Jews and Muslims were often equated in the minds of Christians, and this shared identity continues to be expressed in Renaissance paintings of Jews and Muslims wearing turbans, either harassing Christ or executing a saint. But this is not what Said was pointing to, and in fact, his work addresses colonialism and modernity, not the history of Islamophobia. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 394

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ via shared concern with how medieval Christian visual culture coded religious others.
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