Medieval Christians could imagine no middle ground between Christianity and licence
Evidence
To them the restraints imposed by the Qur’anic law were genuinely negligible; they could conceive no alternative to Christianity or unlimited licence. If we can do so to-day it is because events have shown it to us; we have to tolerate at home more than Islamic society has tolerated, except in its own more irreligious phases. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1488 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Medieval Christians saw only Christianity or unlimited license as options — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1488; Medieval Christians missed that Islamic concubinage was legally regulated, not licensed promiscuity
Related
- Medieval Christians saw only Christianity or unlimited license as options (similarity 0.93)
- Medieval Christians missed that Islamic concubinage was legally regulated, not licensed promiscuity (similarity 0.88)
- Medieval Christians misread Islamic concubinage as unregulated promiscuity (similarity 0.87)
- Christians framed Islam as a religion built on sexual licence (similarity 0.83)
- Medieval Christian shock targeted Islamic toleration of sins more than the sins themselves (similarity 0.83)
- Medieval Christians recognized Islam as morally demanding, not merely permissive (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christian writers saw captive concubinage as Islam’s gravest offense (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Christians could not accept that devotion and unchastity could coexist in Islam (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Christians avoided studying Islamic ritual because it drew no easy condemnation. (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval polemic treated Muslim sexuality as a symptom of a deeper spiritual laxity (similarity 0.80)
- Some medieval Christians conceded the Qur’an forbids sodomy (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Christian knowledge of Islam served polemics, not understanding (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval interreligious polemics operated without shared evidentiary premises (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christian polemicists fixated on Islam’s legal theory while knowing nothing of its practice (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Medieval Christians saw only Christianity or unlimited license as options
#corroborates(0.97) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1488 - Medieval Christians missed that Islamic concubinage was legally regulated, not licensed promiscuity
#qualifies(0.80)