Medieval Christians noted and envied Muslim toleration of Jews.

Evidence

It is strange to reflect that Peter the Venerable recommended Muslims to introduce the admirable toleration of which Christendom provided the model — they allowed a multitude of Jews to live among them and to speak against the Christian faith; and were not moved to anger, sed audiunt patienter, respondent sapienter. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2121

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vault’s construction-of-the-Other thread — here the ‘constitutive outside’ discourse admits the rival’s superior tolerance, contradicting the usual binary of Christian good versus Muslim intolerance.
• QUESTION: Peter the Venerable is the very figure who commissioned Latin translations of the Quran for refutation. That the same man praised Muslim toleration of Jews is a provocative tension worth chasing.
• CANDY: A crisp reversal: a medieval anti-Islam polemicist recommending Muslims adopt Christian-style tolerance — while noting Christians could not tolerate Muslims among themselves.