Medieval Christian polemicists claimed Muslim sources predicted Islam’s imminent defeat

Evidence

Bacon, like the anonymous author of De statu Sarracenorum, thought the Saracens could be brought to the Christian truth through preaching— though Bacon underpinned his missionary strategy with supposedly foolproof philosophical argumentation (explicitly rejected in De statu). Both authors provide comforting predictions of the imminent demise of Islam, supposedly gleaned from the works of Muslim writers. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1158

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian polemicists read Muslim sources as unwittingly confirming Christian legends — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1314