Medieval poets projected a pagan trinity onto Muslims mirroring the Christian one
Evidence
Just as the Christians worship the Holy Trinity, so the Saracen paynim, or pagans, worship their own dark trinity of idols: Mahound (a corruption of Muhammad), Termagant and Apollyon. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 84
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Muslims rejected the Trinity as polytheism and carnal generation
Related
- Medieval Christians invented a distorted Muslim Trinity as mirror of their own faith (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Muslims attacked Christian Trinity and Incarnation as blasphemous polytheism (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christians could align with Muslims against pagans over monotheism (similarity 0.78)
- Muslims rejected the Trinity as polytheism and carnal generation (similarity 0.78)