Medieval Latin polemicists condemned Islamic law as merely legalized lust

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The law of Muhammad, he stresses, is “neither the antiquity of Moses nor the more recent Catholic teachings.” Instead, it is a law based on lust, which authorizes, he says, libidinous sexual relations not only with numerous wives and consorts but also with beasts. For Gautier, too, Machomis’s goal is to “soften the rigor of the law,” in particular to permit lechery. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 788