Medieval polemicists treated Muhammad’s death-by-pigs as poetic justice for teaching uncleanness

Evidence

Gerald of Wales and Higden added that this happened when he was in a drunken stupor, and Gerald commented, ‘since he taught uncleanness and shame, it was by pigs, which are considered unclean animals, that he was devoured’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 601

Categorization

• XREF: The logic of the ‘unclean’ being overcome by uncleanliness parallels how impurity tropes stick to the constructed Muslim subject in Aziz/Razack.