Medieval romances treated the Qur’an as an idol alongside Muhammad

Evidence

In the world of the romances, the Qur’an scarcely figures. In the fifteenth-century English Charlemagne versions it is numbered among the idols which also include Muhammad: He defyed Mahounde and Apolyne, Iubiter, Ascarot and Alcaron also. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 232

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how ‘Alcaron’ became a pagan idol in romance literature, showing how the material text of scripture is absorbed into pagan objecthood in medieval imagination.