Medieval Christian writers treated Muhammad’s sensuality as proof he was subhuman

Evidence

Another view was to see his teaching, less as calculated for its hearers, than as the inevitable product of his salacious mind: homo totus lubricus, he ‘promised for beatitude what was predominant in his most carnal mind’. These views were not incompatible; he was an animal man himself, and he spoke to his like, anzmalis, iste homo animalibus loquens. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 828

Categorization

• XREF: The bestialization of Muhammad mirrors the dehumanizing ‘animal’ framing of racialized others in the critical-race thread, and prefigures how Aziz documents the Racial Muslim today.