Muhammad’s biography was framed as the seducer of Christendom

Evidence

Vitry: one MS (Paris, B. nat., lat. 6244) presents the biography of Muhammad specifically in juxtaposition to the Islamic aggression and the Christian defence, i.e. Crusade: ‘Vita Machometi, qualiter seduxit terram sanctam, sive ecclesiam orientalem’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2106

Categorization

• XREF: The construction of Muhammad as archetypal deceiver aligns with Aziz and Razack on how figures of the Muslim are produced to justify Christian/Western defense.