Medieval Christians explained Muhammad’s scriptural knowledge as travel-borne rather than apostasy

Evidence

The notion that Muhammad did travel, and often that he travelled great distances, was general; usually he was thought to have done so as a merchant, or as Khadijah’s agent in handling her merchandise.*° The idea of his travels offered an alternative explanation of his knowledge of Christianity and Judaism, to that which depended on apostate monks and cunning Jews in Arabia. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 506

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• XREF: connects to: Medieval legends credited Muhammad’s revelations to a heretical monk