Medieval Europeans shared the fatalism they attributed to Muslims

Evidence

Thus Muslim fatalism made no peculiar impression on mediaeval thought; in Europe itself, the recognition of God’s Providence in dangers and misfortunes was strongest then, when there was least opportunity to defy the fates. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 889

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vault’s constitutive-outside claim: the alleged Muslim trait (fatalism) had internal European corollaries, showing attribution is projection onto a partially imaginary outside.