Medieval polemicists defined Islam as salvation through faith without works

Evidence

It was an essential point that salvation in Islam came through simple repetition of the shahadah and that it was the reward of faith without works. Islam was the lex salutis antonomaszte, in the sense that it was the law of easy salvation. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 866

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates how ‘lex salutis’ inverts the vault thread’s Paul/Antijudaism genealogy (Anidjar) — works vs faith polemic recycles anti-Jewish topoi onto Islam.