Medieval polemicists distorted Quranic verses to serve anti-Muslim arguments

Evidence

The Contrarietas has a perversion of the Qur’anic text here. For ‘it is /awful for you … to go unto your wives’ it has ‘estote solicitt ut impregnetis mulzeres’ (Q. 11.183; Cont. 1x). — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2364

Categorization

• XREF: This textual perversion supports the book’s broader argument (in adjacent chapters) that anti-Islamic polemic shaped Christian readings of the Quran rather than the reverse. — connects to: Mediaeval critics mocked the Qur’an’s chapter names as irrational; Mediaeval Christian polemicists dismissed Quranic metaphors by misreading them as literal physics; Christian annotators charged the Quran with self-contradiction on points later seen as mere nuance (+4 more)