Medieval critics faulted the Qur’an for violating Aristotelian reason.

Evidence

This treatment leads on to another great field in which the Qur’an was thought alien to Western tradition: its inconsistency with reason, that is, both with natural philosophers in moral and scientific matters, and with itself in simple logic. This was inevitably how it would strike a mediaeval reader trained in the schools. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 357

Categorization

• XREF: The epistemic criterion of ‘reason’ as defined by Western scholasticism becomes the yardstick for judging Islam alien — echoes Razack’s and Aziz’s analyses of secular-legal rationality as the standard that renders the Racial Muslim illegible.