Ricoldo grasped that Islam’s correction claim supersedes the Gospel entirely

Evidence

Ricoldo made a neat statement on this aspect of prophecy. ‘Theretore they say that the Qur’an succeeds, so to say, in the place of the Gospel, and that the whole of whatever was good in the Gospel is in the Qur’an, and that there is no further work for the Gospel (to do ).’ — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 143

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s Islamophobia genealogy thread — how a rival’s self-construction as ‘corrector’ of one’s own revelation is the deepest threat, echoing Aziz/Razack on Islam as supersessionist challenger to Western self-narrative.