Muslims were ideologically collapsed into heretics, Jews, and the devil by Christian writers.

Evidence

The identification of Jews as dogs—ravenous, wild, and cannibalistic—continued for centuries. In the eighteenth century, Jewish dogs were accused of eating children, narratives based on late medieval and Renaissance paintings of Jews and Muslims killing Christian children. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 232 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rabbinic theological polemics enabled Christian burning of Jewish books — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2591; Crusade-era rhetoric called Muslims an accursed race utterly alienated from God.; Medieval writers classified Muslim followers as monstrous races and devil minions. (+8 more)

Related

• Medieval writers represented Jewish and Muslim bodies as jointly diseased and degenerate (similarity 0.89)
• Blood-libel imagery linked Jews and Muslims eating Christian children. (similarity 0.88)
• Muslim monsters were depicted as cannibals who ate their enemies. (similarity 0.83)
• Theological explanations blamed Christian corruption and cast Muslims as God’s punishing instrument (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval authors mislabelled Islamic Christian and Jewish influences as heretical sects (similarity 0.82)
• Rabbinic theological polemics enabled Christian burning of Jewish books (similarity 0.81)
• Bestiaries transferred Jewish monstrous symbols onto Muslim characters (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims were cast as apocalyptic beasts within Christian eschatology. (similarity 0.81)
• Theology branded Muslims as tainted collaborators with Jews against Christendom (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval passion plays made Muhammad the god of Christ’s Jewish and Roman tormentors (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval theology framed Jews and Muslims as heretical collaborators in anti-Christian violence. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval anti-Muslim rhetoric borrowed bodily-debility tropes from anti-Jewish writing (similarity 0.80)
• Jews and Muslims were co-identified as Jesus’s executioners from at least the 690s (similarity 0.80)
• Christian art associated Jews with barking dogs and cannibal violence (similarity 0.80)
• Jews and Muslims shared a canine monstrous identity in medieval literature (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Medieval writers classified Muslim followers as monstrous races and devil minions. #corroborates (0.85)
• Medieval theologians constructed Muslims as a degraded race descending from the slave Hagar #expands (0.75)
• Blood-libel imagery linked Jews and Muslims eating Christian children. #expands (0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 232
• Medieval writers represented Jewish and Muslim bodies as jointly diseased and degenerate #expands (0.60)
• Church persecution as doctrine caused the emergence of Muslim monsters #expands (0.55)
• Muslims were cast as apocalyptic beasts within Christian eschatology. #corroborates (0.50)
• Early Protestant writers framed Islam’s rise as divine punishment for corrupted churches. #qualifies (0.30) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 108
• Theological explanations blamed Christian corruption and cast Muslims as God’s punishing instrument #qualifies (0.30)