Misunderstanding Islamic theology came from conflating God as creator and as author of acts

Evidence

His mistake was to understand the true proposition, that Islam takes God to be the Creator of men’s acts, to mean that Islam believes Him to be their author. In fact, the Islamic position distinguishes these two functions, so that any criticism which, like San Pedro’s, did not recognise this distinction, must be inadequate; but the San Pedro was willing to admit the difficulties of the Christian position about predestination. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 881

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault thread that polemical misrepresentation of Islam rests on category errors and projection — relates to how ‘Islam’ gets constructed as the West’s constitutive outside via deliberate or careless misreading.
• QUESTION: Worth checking whether this exact creator/author distinction appears in modern anti-Muslim polemics and whether the vault’s Anidjar material documents similar structural misreadings.