Medieval Muslims and Christians living together avoided religious discussion, breeding mutual misconceptions
Evidence
No doubt Muslims and Christians, when they did live side by side, normally refrained from discussing religion, as happens now; and, as happens now, each side may have retained a number of false ideas of the other in consequence. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2423
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Parallels the finding in ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ and ‘Home Boy’ about everyday intergroup silence hiding real views.
Related
- Medieval Christian-Muslim disputation mostly argued from premises neither side shared (similarity 0.92)
- Coexistent religious communities avoid religious discussion and hold false views of each other (similarity 0.89)
- Medieval interreligious polemics operated without shared evidentiary premises (similarity 0.85)
- Contact with Muslims forced medieval Christians to drop absurd anti-Islamic stories (similarity 0.83)
- Recorded Christian-Muslim disputations rarely prove genuine learned exchange occurred (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christians avoided studying Islamic ritual because it drew no easy condemnation. (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christians held genuinely conflicted feelings about Muslim reverence for Jesus and Mary. (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christians viewed Islam only as a negative foil to Christianity (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christian polemic offered no common ground that could persuade Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christian knowledge of Islam served polemics, not understanding (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Christians held an irreducibly equivocal attitude toward Qur’anic Christology (similarity 0.81)
- Christian and Muslim mutual denunciations paradoxically revealed their shared Jewish roots (similarity 0.81)
- Christian-Muslim coexistence stayed separate, unlike European inter-denominational mingling (similarity 0.81)
- Mutual incomprehension over prayer style blocked Christian-Muslim doctrinal exchange. (similarity 0.81)