Medieval Christian critics adopted the arguments of Muhammad’s own contemporary enemies

Evidence

San Pedro saw nothing worse in the episode than the manufacture of revelations, which was evidence of hypocrisy, or diabolical possession, or both; he also thought that Muhammad’s fondness for “A’ishah was unworthy of a prophet. This last was ‘All’s own argument at the time, which the Risalah quoted from Bukhari. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 580

Categorization

• XREF: The borrowing of Muhammad’s contemporary critics’ arguments parallels how the vault traces how the West recycles internal Islamic polemics, resonant with Anidjar’s enemy-genealogy framework.