Qur’anic verses recast through biased lenses can change their meaning with minimal inaccuracy

Evidence

A careful comparison with the Qur’anic original will show how, with a minimum of inaccuracy, it gives an erroneous sense. Thus the Prophet’s being allowed more wives than the other believers becomes promiscuous access to all women; a suggestive phrase about their offering their bodies derives really from permission for marriage without a dowry. The final verse refers to the obligation of the Prophet to sleep with his wives in rotation; instead of conferring promiscuous licence, it regulates marital rights. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 565

Categorization

• XREF: This exemplifies exactly the Orientalist misreading mechanism Anidjar and Aziz trace — how a text is constituted so it can serve as the West’s degraded foil. The ‘minimum of inaccuracy’ mechanism corroborates the vault claim that Islam’s constructed image depends on small tendentious translations. — connects to: Distorted taqiyya doctrine functions to dismiss any Muslim’s speech as deception — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 306
• DEEPTHINKING: The methodological insight — that tendentious construction works through minimal, deniable inaccuracy rather than outright fabrication — is a dense claim about how the constitutive-outside image of Islam is manufactured, worth sitting with.
• SEED: Essay angle: micro-tendentiousness — how the smallest inflection shift in translation does the ideological work that crude fabrication cannot, applied to current media representation of Islam.