Modern Muslim monsters rest on medieval fantasies

Evidence

These centuries continued to see the production of fantastic Muslim characters, including monsters. Several prominent philosophical, intellectual, and artistic movements affected the production of Muslim monsters, including the Enlightenment, Orientalism, and Romanticism, with its rich offshoot, the Gothic, resulting in an episteme of continued anti-Muslim rhetoric that was largely situated in fantasies that first emerged in the Middle Ages. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 351

Categorization

• XREF: Anchor for the reader’s guiding question 2 — the anti-Muslim episteme predates contact, being situated in fantasies first emergent in the Middle Ages. — connects to: Fantasy ideology smuggles feudal nostalgia into imagined other worlds — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1104
• SEED: Angles: tracing how the Gothic/Enlightenment machine of monster-production retrofitted medieval anti-Muslim fantasy into ‘scientific’ teratology as epistemic continuity.