Medieval theology framed Jews and Muslims as heretical collaborators in anti-Christian violence.

Evidence

Throughout the Middle Ages, Muslims were often described as “tainted with Judaism.” Christian theologians argued that both Jewish and Muslim religious practices were flawed and heretical, and furthermore, that they were collaborators, either in conspiring to undo the Church or—and this is where the monsters often appear—mutilating and killing Christian men, women, and children. Renaissance paintings of the crucifixion, the martyrdom of saints, and other scenes often feature Jewish and Muslim (typically, Turkish) figures participating in these crimes. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 163

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ themes of Jews and Muslims as shared figures of Christian Othering; also dovetails with the reader’s core thesis on manufactured Muslim monster.

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• Theology branded Muslims as tainted collaborators with Jews against Christendom (similarity 0.93)
• Medieval Christian art co-identified Jews and Muslims as interchangeable enemies. (similarity 0.85)
• Jews and Muslims were interchangeable demonic figures in the medieval Christian imagination. (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval Christian art equated Jews and Muslims under shared imagery (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval Christians conflated Jews and Muslims into shared monster figures (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval Christians co-identified Jews and Muslims as one hybrid enemy (similarity 0.83)
• Portraying one group as Christ-killers conjured up the image of the other group (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Christians constructed Islam and Judaism as mutual templates (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval anti-Jewish monster imagery supplied the template for the Muslim monster (similarity 0.82)
• Muslims were placed in the same Christ-killer schema as Jews (similarity 0.81)
• Scholarship on medieval Islamophobia has lagged behind that on Christian-Jewish and heretic relations (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Semitic Christ-killer imagery is easily sourced while its Muslim counterpart is not (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval demonology imagined Muslims and Jews as allied agents of Satan (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims were ideologically collapsed into heretics, Jews, and the devil by Christian writers. (similarity 0.81)
• Jews and Muslims alike were cast as perpetual Christ-killers (similarity 0.81)