Muhammad’s mortal death itself was framed as proof of Islam’s falsity

Evidence

The very fact that Muhammad was dead, and that Muslims agreed that this was so, whereas Christ had risen to Heaven, was felt to be important: ‘he died, and he lies dead on earth … and this the Muslims affirm’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 600

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s Anidjar cluster on how Islam is constructed as Christianity’s constitutive outside — here the dead-prophet-against-risen-Christ contrast does that constructional work.