Medieval Christians read Qur’anic praise of Christ as a self-condemning admission against Muhammad.

Evidence

The Qur’an ‘bore lucid witness to the miracles and divine works of Jesus Christ’. Muhammad ‘himself extolled the Lord Christ, son of Mary, above all men’. This idea was ever present; it seemed to Christians like an admission on the part of their opponents, and it seemed also to imply a contrast with Muhammad, whom none but Muslims praised. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 934

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s account — Anidjar’s Jew/Arab enemy genealogy and how Christian Europe strategically read Islam’s texts to construct it as lower — showing a rhetorical weaponization of Scripture itself.
• SEED: Possible angle: how each religious tradition reads its rival’s ‘concessions’ as self-incrimination — the hermeneutics of damning admission.