Muslim rulers economically supported Christian monasteries, which Latins could not process.

Evidence

Also alien to the Latin conception was Islamic generosity to Christian churches. Several writers of different periods remarked on the economic support traditionally given by the Egyptian sultans to the Greek monastery on Mount Sinai. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1134

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates a complicating counter-case to the ‘Islam as constitutive enemy’ frame: actual Islamic practice toward Christians was tolerant statecraft, only in the mirror of Latin polemic did it harden into enmity — echoes of the vault’s genealogy connecting tolerance/toleration rhetoric to the construction of the Jew/Arab as outsider.