Medieval Christian polemicists adopted the Quraysh’s accusations against Muhammad as their own evidence

Evidence

San Pedro thought that the same tradition from ‘A’ishah about the Prophet’s perspiring while he received a revelation showed that he was exactly what the Quraysh, his enemies among his own people in Mecca, accused him of being, a soothsayer. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 180

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault cluster on how ‘Islam’ is constructed as the West’s constitutive outside — here the genealogy extends deep into medieval Christian polemic adopting the enemy tribe’s own accusations.