Medieval Christians dismissed the Islamic Paradise as intellectually embarrassing

Evidence

Learned Muslims, claimed William of Auvergne, realised that through these ideas Muhammad ‘was made ridiculous before the whole world’; later, RamĂ©n Marti would insist, with a wealth of illustrations, that even the Muslim philosophers, ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and al-Farabi, made eternal beatitude consist in the knowledge and love of God. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 822

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