Passion narratives collapsed Jews and Muslims into one identity

Evidence

Medieval and Renaissance narratives of the Passion co-identified Jews and Muslims, through such conventions as Jews praying to Mahomet and Muslims identified as Romans. These stories greatly impacted the art of the period. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 249

Categorization

• QUESTION: The convention of ‘Jews praying to Mahomet’ suggests Christians merged Islamic and Jewish markers — worth tracing how this conflation served the manufacture of the monster.