Medieval Christian polemicists attacked Islam with knowingly false evidence

Evidence

All writers tended - more or less — to cling to fantastic tales about Islam and its Prophet in a proprietary way, as belonging to the ‘Christian’ version. Polemists capable of highly informed argument inconsistently retained much that was quite untenable … The difference lay only in degree. More that was incredible was excluded, more that was authentic admitted, in one case than in the next. The use of false evidence to attack Islam was all but universal. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1347

Categorization

• XREF: Aligns with Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ and Anidjar on how the construction of the Muslim enemy depends on manufactured misinformation — a medieval precedent for modern anti-Muslim knowledge production.