Northern Christians largely ignored Islam rather than attacking it

Evidence

While this strident anti-Muslim ideology seemed necessary to defend the actions of the martyrs, northern Christians by and large ignored Islam rather than anathematizing it. Even the royal Asturian chronicles, written by Mozarab Christians who revered the martyrs and brought Eulogius’s relics and writings from Córdoba to Oviedo, show scant interest in the refutation or vilification of Islam. They justified their conquests against the Umayyads as a reestablishment of Gothic hegemony, not as a holy war Western Christian Responses to Islam • 103 against Chaldean heretics. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 581

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader historiography of medieval Christian-Muslim relations and how ‘holy war’ rhetoric is situated and contested.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 581