Medieval Christian storytelling presumed Islam’s moral standards could judge Christians

Evidence

What is common to all these stories, even Joinville’s, is the presumption that there exist standards in Islam by which Christians could be judged, and judged justly; and in every case except Joinville’s a reader might acquire the idea that Christians and Muslims behave in very much the same fashion in real life. This is emphatically not the impression that a reader of the purely polemical literature would derive from it. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1104

What is common to all these stories, even Joinville’s, is the presumption that there exist standards in Islam by which Christians could be judged, and judged justly; and in every case except Joinville’s a reader might acquire the idea that Christians and Muslims behave in very much the same fashion in real life. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1104

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the cross-cultural moral-judgment framing of published articles on immodesty panics and on ritual sacrifice — how outsiders’ norms are used to indict one’s own community. — connects to: Medieval storytellers assumed Muslims shared Christian moral standards.; The social character of Islamic practice went unrecognized by medieval Christian writers
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1104