Mozarab resentments on Islam’s frontier fueled fabricated Christian accusations
Evidence
It seems clear that the assertion arises from common Christian malice; it is not difficult to imagine the venomous feelings towards Islam which may have prevailed among those whose background was Mozarab and who lived on the verge of dar al-Islam. It is not an attractive picture. The French monk would have been easily imposed upon, since he would see the sincerity of gossipers who believed their own exaggerated assertions. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 785
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Fringe frontier Christian communities generated polemical slanders later scholars universalized (similarity 0.90)
- Contact with Muslims forced medieval Christians to drop absurd anti-Islamic stories (similarity 0.84)
- Christians resented Islam’s claim to descend from Abraham and the Prophets (similarity 0.84)
- Islam’s military success forced Christians to reinterpret church history as corruption (similarity 0.83)
- Distance from the Islamic border allowed increasingly extravagant anti-Islamic claims to be accepted (similarity 0.82)
- Christian polemics against Islam argued from premises only Christians accepted (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval critics accused Muhammad of mixing Jewish and Christian heresy (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christian distaste, not ignorance, distorted portrayals of Islam (similarity 0.81)
- Scholarship on medieval Islamophobia has lagged behind that on Christian-Jewish and heretic relations (similarity 0.81)
- Subject religious minorities amplified anti-Islamic malice to win favor with Christian conquerors (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Christian polemicists attacked Islam with knowingly false evidence (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Christians doubted Islam’s truth yet marveled at its success (similarity 0.81)
- Alienness of permitted practice made the assumption easy to believe (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Christian polemicists investigated Muhammad’s claims carefully rather than dismissing them (similarity 0.81)
- Mozarab authors supplied the rhetorical scripts Latin polemicists later deployed against Islam (similarity 0.81)