Medieval Christians grounded anti-Islamic prophecy in Muslim astronomical science
Evidence
The verse of the Qur’an which we have already quoted was cited by Fitzralph also, and summarised by the quadruplex reprobatio: the Muslims are commanded to believe in God and the Law and the Prophets and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and not to make any difference between them. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 128 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Talmud and Qur’an might be paired as sources of error; a manuscript of Peter de Pennis contains consecutively his treatise contra Judaeos, nomine Thalamoth and his contra Alchoranum.* Finally, the ‘Rabbi Samuel’ literature, translated by Alfonso de Buenhombre, conceived anti-Judaic and anti-Islamic polemic as essentially interwoven. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1051 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Christians reinterpreted biblical prophecy to explain Muslim conquests; Medieval Christians read the Antichrist prophecy as prefiguring Islam — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 109; Medieval Christian accounts idealized Muslim public gravity beyond reality — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1088 (+17 more)
Broader Connections
- Medieval Christians read the Antichrist prophecy as prefiguring Islam
#corroborates(1.00) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 109 - The Qur’anic succession-of-prophets verse shaped medieval anti-Muslim polemic
#corroborates(1.00) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 128 - Medieval Christians weaponized accurate Islamic learning for polemics
#corroborates(1.00) - Medieval Christian polemic intertwined refutations of Judaism and Islam as twin errors
#expands(1.00) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1051 - Medieval Christian accounts idealized Muslim public gravity beyond reality
#complicates(0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1088 - Medieval Christian polemic schematized prophecy tests to reject Muhammad empirically, not by definition
#complicates(0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 402 - Medieval Christian accounts of Islamic ablution garbled Arabic units and doctrine
#complicates(0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2333 - Medieval Christians typologically framed Islam as recapitulating earlier heresies
#complicates(0.80) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 133 - Scholarship on medieval anti-other imagery has neglected Muslims
#complicates(0.70) - Medieval anti-Islamic polemics aimed to fortify Christians rather than convert Muslims
#complicates(0.70) - Medieval Christians explained Islamic licentiousness through Arab climate and temperament
#complicates(0.70) - Medieval Christian error about Islam assumed a cosmic God-Satan binary
#complicates(0.70) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 162 - Medieval Christian polemics reinterpreted Islamic miracles as fraudulent tricks
#complicates(0.70) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1314 - Teleological readings distort medieval anti-Muslim writing
#complicates(0.70) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1370