Medieval Christian polemicists dismissed Qur’anic claims about pre-Islamic prophets as chronologically absurd

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And, again, he says the same about Noe: that he was a Muslim, and that the reason why the Flood came to the Earth was because he preached to men that they should become Muslims, and they refused. This, indeed, is undisguisedly false; for how could Noe, who preceded Muhammad by two thousand five hundred years, be a Muslim? — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 164