Medieval Christians dismissed the Islamic Paradise as intellectually embarrassing
Evidence
Learned Muslims, claimed William of Auvergne, realised that through these ideas Muhammad âwas made ridiculous before the whole worldâ; 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. â Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 822
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