Ricoldo attacked the Qur’an through Muhammad, reversing the usual polemical order

Evidence

Ricoldo was even more inclined to schematisation, but with him an excess of it resulted in confusion. He attacked the Qur’an through the Prophet, thus reversing the more usual dismissal of the lawgiver because of the law, possibly because he recognised the greater significance of the Qur’an than of the Prophet. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 411

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did Ricoldo uniquely reverse the standard argumentative direction, and did this make his attack more effective?
• XREF: connects to: Ricoldo first conflated hadith commentary with the Qur’anic text