Muslim sexual monstrosity fantasies persisted from medieval claims into the colonial croco-sapien
Evidence
The Egyptian croco-sapien is an example of the construction of marvelous fictive creatures that were situated in fantasies about Muslims. It is worth remembering here that fantasies about Muslim sexual monstrosity have a long history; one only needs to recall the claims of Prophet Muhammad’s sexual superpowers, the reports of gargantuan Muslim penises that Jews and Christians would have to carry into heaven, or the wild stories contained in the Turcica. The croco-sapien is but another example of a wild and fantastic monster that emerged out of the habitus of Muslim monsters: — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 419
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Ties directly to the reader’s guiding question about which figures recur carrying which anxieties — sexual superpower and gargantuan members recur across eras.
Related
- Even real distant creatures became Muslim monsters through imagined sexual monstrosity (similarity 0.89)
- Medieval and colonial Europeans projected obsessive sexual-masculinity fantasies onto Muslim men (similarity 0.86)
- Medieval Christian texts fabricated Muslim sexual superstitions that persisted into colonial-era mythology. (similarity 0.86)
- Ottoman-ruled lands were imagined as sites of unnatural sexuality (similarity 0.83)
- Orientalist monster imagery freely migrated onto entirely different religious targets (similarity 0.83)
- Medieval sexual fantasies about Muhammad later transferred to all Muslim men (similarity 0.82)
- Female Muslim monsters arose in the colonial era from sexualized body imagery (similarity 0.81)
- Muslim monsters are repositories of Western desires as much as fears (similarity 0.80)
- German Turcica manufactured lurid tales of Muslim sexual deviance (similarity 0.80)
- Orientalist monster fantasies transferred freely across religious and ethnic enemy groups (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism (similarity 0.79)
- Modern Muslim monsters rest on medieval fantasies (similarity 0.78)
- Muslim males in Gothic horror are framed as essentially evil, deviant, and child-murdering (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism
#expands(0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 75 - Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim
#corroborates(0.75) - The dark-skinned Muslim monster persisted from medieval iconography into American imaginations
#expands(0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 161 - Medieval female Muslim monsters fused misogyny and racism
#corroborates(0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 189 - Muslim monsters in Gothic fiction are defined primarily as sexual perverts
#corroborates(0.65) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 430 - Medieval elites first linked Islam and Muhammad to violence and sexual deviance
#corroborates(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 66 - The Muslim monster embodied repressed female sexual desire in Gothic fiction
#responds-to(0.50) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 492 - Ottoman proximity shifted Muslim-monster stories toward miscegenation fear
#expands(0.50) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 79 - Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery
#contradicts(0.40) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201