Medieval critics framed Islam as offering an easier, more indulgent path than Christianity

Evidence

Without doubt, this religion is wide, keeping many commandments of the delights of this present life … If you seek the root of this religion, rou will find it founded on a foundation [sic] of unshaken reason, namely, that God loves (men), and did not will to burden them with many commandments. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 850

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• SHARE: Pedro de Alfonso’s thirteenth-century framing of Islam as ‘wide’ and grounded in God’s love rather than burden could delight a friend interested in interfaith polemics.
• XREF: connects to: Medieval audiences preferred Islam accounts easier to ridicule over accurate ones