Scholastic anti-Islamic polemic argued against positions Muslims never actually held

Evidence

Disproof of this corporal beatitude was taken very seriously. It was both the strength and the weakness of scholasticism to consider every objection seriously, whether plausible or implausible, and even irrespectively of its actually having been made by opponents. There was no seeking for the actual arguments of Muslims. Scholastics generally devoted long sections to their proofs. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 829

Categorization

• XREF: This strengthens the vault claim that the ‘Muslim’ is a constructed straw target — medieval Christians debated fabricated Islamic positions rather than actual doctrine, an early instance of discourse fabricating its own enemy. — connects to: Self-styled anti-sharia experts lacked even basic knowledge of Islamic law — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 409