Muslim polemic accused Jews and Christians of falsifying scripture to erase prophecies of Muhammad

Evidence

Peter of Toledo may reflect the malice of Mozarab advisers, but the highly reliable reprobatio and San Pedro are at fault in another equally distasteful matter; conceivably they also were indebted to local Arabic-speaking Christian advice. According to the reprobatio, ‘*A’ishah said, “I and the Prophet washed ourselves from the same jar, and we were polluted, and he told me to cover myself with a cloth, et sic iacebat mecum seu contingebat me, et eram menstruata.”’ It is clear from the immediate source, Bukhari, that these words cannot bear the objectionable sense imputed to them; ‘lie beside or touch’ is meant literally, and not as a euphemism for sexual intercourse. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 583 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

His criticism that the Qur’anic story of Christ was as hard to believe as the Christian one was fair; but he would also use Qur’anic passages to make points of startling pedantry. For example, he pointed out that when the Qur’an said that the Jews claimed to have killed the Messias, Jesus, it was quite in error, because the Jews did not believe that Jesus was the Messias. It was the heart of his argument that Muhammad did not understand the truths that he sometimes enunciated; he ‘spoke the truth… but he did not understand’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 953 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslims held that Jews and Christians corrupted their scriptures; A polemical work made Jews and Muslims mutually undermine each other’s scriptures — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 311; Muslim polemicists accused Christians of corrupting scripture and polytheism — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 80 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Christian polemicists deliberately mistranslated Muslim sources to defame Muhammad #responds-to (0.95) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 583
• Medieval polemicists attacked the Qur’an with pedantic misreadings to prove Muhammad misunderstood truths #responds-to (0.95) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 953
• Muslim polemicists accused Christians of corrupting scripture and polytheism #complicates (0.85) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 80
• Christian polemics argued Jews posed a greater diabolical threat than Muhammad #complicates (0.85)
• Christian polemicists measured Muhammad against Hebrew prophecy criteria he was not claiming to meet #complicates (0.85)
• Theology branded Muslims as tainted collaborators with Jews against Christendom #complicates (0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 163
• A fabricated Christian polemic long served as Western Europe’s main source on Muhammad #complicates (0.75) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 55
• European polemicists misread Muslim claims of scripture suppression #complicates (0.75) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 306
• Medieval Christian polemicists fabricated absurdly distorted biographies of Muhammad #complicates (0.75) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 65
• Medieval polemic assumed learned Muslims secretly doubted Muhammad’s prophecy #complicates (0.75) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1332
• Medieval Christian polemics demonized Muhammad to justify crusader violence against Muslims #complicates (0.75) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 886