Renaissance scholarship long coexisted with unrevised medieval views of Islam.

Evidence

Mediaeval contempt for the Islamic world as unphilosophical contrasts strangely with our modern concept of the mediaeval Latin West as wholly indebted for its philosophy to the Islamic East. Even if the modern view is correct, we need not assume mediaeval hypocrisy, but just a lack of historical perspective. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1995 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

In most Catholic and Protestant theological writings of the Reformation, we do not encounter efforts to nuance or move beyond medieval depictions of Islam. With the extension of the Ottoman Empire into Europe and the fracturing of Western Christianity in the Reformation, older medieval constructs of Islam are redeployed to respond to new circumstances. However, the underlying fear in Christian Europe remains the same—fear of the power and expansion of Islamic territories. It is only with the period known as the Enlightenment that we witness some of these fears subside, even if temporarily, while more significant efforts to depict Islam sympathetically come to the fore. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 157 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval contempt for Islamic philosophy coexisted with massive intellectual debt to it. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1995; Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 157; Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition

Related

• Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged (similarity 0.90)
• Medieval contempt for Islamic philosophy coexisted with massive intellectual debt to it. (similarity 0.88)
• Retitling recycled scholarship from ‘Revolt’ to ‘Return of Islam’ serves ideological ends (similarity 0.86)
• The Western canon on Islam outlived religious unity and the Reformation itself. (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval theological justification for opposing Muslims has faded in Europe. (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval Christian critics of Islam lacked Arabic competence and historical perspective (similarity 0.84)
• European scholarship on Islam turned disinterested only once Islam ceased threatening Europe. (similarity 0.84)
• Hostile Christian descriptions of Islam repeated themselves virtually unchanged across centuries (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christian distaste, not ignorance, distorted portrayals of Islam (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christian polemics could only read Islam as affirming or negating Christianity (similarity 0.83)
• Renaissance-era Arabic scholarship in Europe cast Islam more sympathetically than the Crusades had (similarity 0.83)
• Vituperative anti-Islamic polemic persisted into the 1780s and 1790s. (similarity 0.83)
• An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350 (similarity 0.83)
• Enlightenment praise of Islam extended the mediaeval attack on infidels to Christianity itself (similarity 0.83)
• The Western view of Islam was fixed by 1350 and persists today (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition #corroborates (0.80)
• Medieval contempt for Islamic philosophy coexisted with massive intellectual debt to it. #exemplifies (0.75) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1995
• Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged #corroborates (0.72) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 157