Medieval critics saw Islamic truths as deliberate bait for deception

Evidence

In that religion there are both many truths inserted into the lies, and good things mixed with the bad, even with malice to deceive: namely, so that the false things should be believed because of the true, or else that the bad things should be received because of the good. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 904 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

San Pedro had some doubts about the Maurus legend but felt sure that episodes told by ibn Ishaq (the delay in revelation over the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and the accusation by the Quraysh that Muhammad had a foreign teacher) implied the substantial truth of the main point of it. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2044 (#expands, via linked claim)

Not only did Ricoldo realise that this condemnation existed in the Qur’an; he also knew that Muslims denied that the crime was permitted by those verses that he (like so many others, always willing to tell Muslims what they believed) maintained gave it licence. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 795 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval polemicists claimed Islam mixed truths with lies to deceive believers — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 904; Medieval polemicists used Muslim sources to validate anti-Muslim legends — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2044; Medieval polemicists told Muslims what Islam believed against their denials — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 795

Related

• Medieval polemicists claimed Islam mixed truths with lies to deceive believers (similarity 0.91)
• Medieval Christian polemicists treated Christian and Muslim legends as mutually confirmatory (similarity 0.91)
• Medieval polemicists used Muslim sources to validate anti-Muslim legends (similarity 0.90)
• Medieval Christian polemics held that Qur’anic truths served only as bait for deception. (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval polemicists ignored known facts to fabricate Muslim heretical intent (similarity 0.88)
• Informed medieval polemicists still clung to untenable anti-Muslim fables (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval polemicists recycled general accusations of Muslim vice without personal knowledge (similarity 0.88)
• Scholars perpetuated apocryphal Islamic legends despite knowing they lacked sources (similarity 0.87)
• Even well-informed medieval authors chose implausible stories when framing Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• Christian polemicists read Muslim sources as unwittingly confirming Christian legends (similarity 0.86)
• Some medieval authors noted Qur’anic truths without accusing Muhammad of deception (similarity 0.86)
• Medieval polemicists told Muslims what Islam believed against their denials (similarity 0.86)
• Medieval polemicists quietly dropped claims lacking cross-tradition confirmation (similarity 0.86)
• Medieval Christians polemicists routinely conflated the Qur’an with reported sayings of Muhammad (similarity 0.86)
• Medieval polemicists attacked the Qur’an with pedantic misreadings to prove Muhammad misunderstood truths (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Medieval polemicists claimed Islam mixed truths with lies to deceive believers #corroborates (0.95) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 904
• Medieval polemicists used Muslim sources to validate anti-Muslim legends #expands (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2044
• Medieval polemicists told Muslims what Islam believed against their denials #expands (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 795