Medieval European conflation of Qur’an and Traditions may have been a deliberate polemic tactic

Evidence

The Contrarietas has a perversion of the Qur’anic text here. For ‘it is /awful for you … to go unto your wives’ it has ‘estote solicitt ut impregnetis mulzeres’ (Q. 11.183; Cont. 1x). — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2364 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval Christian polemic interpreted Qur’anic texts as nastily as possible; Ketton’s medieval Qur’an mistranslated but did not deliberately distort Islam; Medieval attacks on the Qur’an obscured its evident piety to unlearned readers (+5 more)

Related

• Medieval polemicists distorted Quranic verses to serve anti-Muslim arguments (similarity 0.94)
• Christian polemicists distorted Qur’anic verses with small, impactful translation shifts (similarity 0.90)
• Ketton’s medieval Qur’an mistranslated but did not deliberately distort Islam (similarity 0.90)
• Medieval Christian polemic interpreted Qur’anic texts as nastily as possible (similarity 0.89)
• Medieval Christian polemic distorted Qur’anic texts with minimal inaccuracy (similarity 0.88)
• Medieval Christians polemicists routinely conflated the Qur’an with reported sayings of Muhammad (similarity 0.88)
• Mediaeval Christian polemicists dismissed Quranic metaphors by misreading them as literal physics (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval attacks on the Qur’an obscured its evident piety to unlearned readers (similarity 0.86)
• Medieval anti-Islamic polemics aimed to fortify Christians rather than convert Muslims (similarity 0.85)
• Christian annotators charged the Quran with self-contradiction on points later seen as mere nuance (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval polemicists quoted the Qur’an inaccurately without scruple (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval Christians read the Qur’an as inadvertent testimony to Christian truth (similarity 0.83)
• Mediaeval anti-Islamic polemics convinced neither Muslims nor Christians (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christian polemics held that Qur’anic truths served only as bait for deception. (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval writers ignored Islamic ritual because praising it served no polemic purpose (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Medieval polemicists distorted Quranic verses to serve anti-Muslim arguments #expands (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2364
• Medieval Christian polemicists framed Islam as lust-driven heresy rather than separate religion #corroborates (0.75)