Medieval polemicists refuted Islamic Paradise by literal consequence-chaining

Evidence

This writer would constantly argue that if there were to be intensified worldly joys, the sorrows of this world would be correspondingly intensified. A limitation of his attitude lay in the rigid literalism which he carried as far as possible. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 835

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how the vault cluster traces the construction of Islam as the West’s theological other — this is the medieval doctrinal layer preceding modern racialization in Aziz and Razack.