Medieval scholastics judged the Qur’an illogical for lacking their numbered format

Evidence

Confusion, thought Ricoldo, was itself confused; he could remember no book which so offended the rules of logic. The scholastic taste was for a numbered and schematised presentation; but the Qur’an had no order at all, except the damning order of poetry ‘qui Deo non competit’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 348

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s critical-race cluster: the charge of ‘no order/lack of rationality’ as a rhetorical construction of the non-European text mirrors how ‘Islam’ gets schematized by its Western other.
• DEFINE: Shows Western polemic measuring the Qur’an against scholastic conventions and finding it wanting — early tactic in constituting Islam as outside Western reason.