Reland’s 1705 work permanently purged legend from scholarly study of Islam.

Evidence

Reland’s de religione mohammedica (1705) is certainly the most important of several that helped to clear away legend and substitute fact, and only fact; it can be studied with profit to-day. Nonsense that had deceived the learned and indulged the ignorant for so long was not now just pushed temporarily aside by a few authors, but finally excluded from the canon acceptable to scholars. Prideaux’s book (1697) was perhaps the last exception; between his and Reland’s there is as great a chasm as there can be between contemporaries. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1658 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

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Related

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Broader Connections

• Reland’s 1705 work permanently excluded fable from accepted scholarship on Islam. #corroborates (0.98) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1658