Medieval Christian critics mirrored modern assumptions about Muslim shrine devotion
Evidence
Many of the arguments used against the Islamic position were similar to, or identical with, those directed against Muslim ethics of sex. Sometimes these were the simple practical arguments directed ad homines which are not unlike modern rationalist arguments against all religion, as wish-fulfilment, or as formed by geographical or economic circumstances. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 825 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Medieval anti-Islamic polemic resembles modern rationalist critiques of religion — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 825
Related
- Medieval anti-Islamic polemic resembles modern rationalist critiques of religion (similarity 0.96)
- Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.88)
- Mediaeval anti-Islamic polemics convinced neither Muslims nor Christians (similarity 0.86)
- Medieval polemic attacked Muslim aspects that scandalized Christian observers (similarity 0.86)
- Medieval Christian anti-Islam polemic relied on scripture, not rational argument. (similarity 0.86)
- Medieval interreligious polemics operated without shared evidentiary premises (similarity 0.86)
- Medieval Christians held an irreducibly equivocal attitude toward Qur’anic Christology (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval Christian views of Islam mixed praise with condemnation. (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval Christian distaste, not ignorance, distorted portrayals of Islam (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval Christians recognized Islam as morally demanding, not merely permissive (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval Christian polemicists framed Islam as lust-driven heresy rather than separate religion (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval writers ignored Islamic ritual because praising it served no polemic purpose (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval Christian polemicists attributed to Muslims arguments the Muslims did not hold. (similarity 0.84)
- Medieval critics framed Islam as offering an easier, more indulgent path than Christianity (similarity 0.84)
- Medieval Christian polemic framed Islam alongside heresy and Judaism (similarity 0.84)
Broader Connections
- Medieval anti-Islamic polemic resembles modern rationalist critiques of religion
#expands(0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 825