Medieval Christian polemicists fabricated absurdly distorted biographies of Muhammad

Evidence

One of its several nastier absurdities is the notion that Muhammad expected to rise again on the third day after his death; in the Middle Ages this reappeared in the very slightly more reasonable version that he expected his body to be carried to Heaven by angels.! — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s claim (from Aziz/Razack cluster) about how the racialized Muslim subject is produced through degraded, distorted representation rather than encounter.
• SEED: Angle: ‘genre fiction before the novel’ — how the earliest ‘biographies’ of Muhammad in Latin Europe function as inverted hagiography, a template later applied to other outsiders.