Medieval Christians rejected any revelation tied to a prophet’s transient circumstances

Evidence

The other point of great importance was the mediaeval objection to the Islamic teaching that revelation might come down to solve problems of a transient nature. When the implications of this objection are considered, it will be seen that the objection extends to any revelation related to the circumstances of a prophet at a time and place; it implies, in fact, all the detailed objections that were made to the character of Muhammad, and to his history, and that were thought definitively to preclude his claim to prophethood. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1524

Categorization

• XREF: A precondition of the later construction of Muhammad as merely temporal/political rather than spiritual — connects to how ‘political Islam’ gets framed as the West’s other in the Anidjar/Aziz literature.