Savary and medieval authors agreed on Muhammad’s facts but split on judging them

Evidence

For Savary Muhammad was a wise man and a subtle politician adapting doctrine as he went along. There is once more continuity with mediaevals who would have dissented only from Savary’s approval of what he and they agreed to be the facts. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1631

Categorization

• XREF: The structure — same facts, opposite moral verdicts — parallels how Savary ‘humanised’ the Qur’an translation noted in the previous chapter.