Medieval Christians held genuinely conflicted feelings about Muslim reverence for Jesus and Mary.

Evidence

The Christian attitude to Muslims, who revered the sacred persons, but did so in highly erroneous forms, was inevitably equivocal. Christians were torn in a matter that affected them deeply. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 969

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the equivocal Christian response documented in Southern’s Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages — the tension between genuine reverence and doctrinal rejection. — connects to: Medieval monks reacted with horror to Muslim reverence for Christ