Medieval Christians knew the Islamic Judas-substitution theory of the crucifixion

Evidence

This was the only place where Tripoli thought he should elucidate the text, the idea that the Jews slandered Christ by claiming to have crucified Him. In order to do so he had recourse to Islamic sources, to the commentators of the Qur’an ‘on the false opinion of the death of Christ’. On this authority Tripoli explained that it was Islamic belief that Judas was crucified in place of Christ, whose likeness he had received. This careful distinction between the commentators and the Qur’an is part of Tripoli’s very rare respect for the text. Tripoli added that Muslims thought it would be contrary to God’s justice that the innocent should suffer. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 944 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval Muslim commentators held Judas was crucified in Jesus’s place — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 944

Related

• Medieval Muslim commentators held Judas was crucified in Jesus’s place (similarity 0.96)
• Medieval Christian readers distinguished Qur’anic text from Islamic commentary on the crucifixion (similarity 0.92)
• Some medieval Christians grasped the Qur’anic Christ accurately (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christian critics judged Islam by Christian institutional standards (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians doubted Islam’s truth yet marveled at its success (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians constructed Islam and Judaism as mutual templates (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christians held an irreducibly equivocal attitude toward Qur’anic Christology (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christians read Muhammad’s life as a failed imitation of Christ (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christians saw the Qur’an’s unlikeness to Scripture as its real disproof. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christian polemicists treated Islam as closer to true faith than Judaism. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval interreligious polemics operated without shared evidentiary premises (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval Christians read Quranic verses as proving scripture’s incorruptibility (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval Christians polemicists routinely conflated the Qur’an with reported sayings of Muhammad (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval Christians chose distorted Islam stories even when accurate sources existed (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Muslim commentators held Judas was crucified in Jesus’s place #corroborates (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 944