Scholastic Christians judged the Qur’an by alien stylistic criteria and inverted its self-understanding

Evidence

This excessively small-minded carping sprang from a genuine divergence of Western and Eastern traditions. The form and the manner of the Qur’an remained always alien to the scholastic age which so specially honoured the systematic classification of arguments. It was supposed that its style gave a strong presumption of its human origin; it was too badly written to be of God. In this way the attitude of the Arab and the Muslim, and the assertion of the Qur’an itself, were exactly reversed. It is the Qur’an that says that it is its own proof, that issues the challenge to produce one revelation equal, in matter and expression, to those that it contains. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 330 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mediaeval critics mocked the Qur’an’s chapter names as irrational; Medieval Christian readers judged the Qur’an by its Christology; Medieval Western scholars judged the Qur’an human because its style failed scholastic standards — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 330 (+4 more)

Related

• Medieval Western scholars judged the Qur’an human because its style failed scholastic standards (similarity 0.92)
• Scholastic systematizing made the Qur’an’s literary form unintelligible to Christians (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval Christian readers judged the Qur’an by its Christology (similarity 0.86)
• Christian polemicists reversed the Qur’an’s own self-authentication by aesthetics (similarity 0.85)
• Christian polemicists deemed the Qur’an’s style itself inherently defective, not merely untranslatable (similarity 0.84)
• Medieval attacks on the Qur’an obscured its evident piety to unlearned readers (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christians used the Qur’an’s poetic form to deny its divine status (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christians understood Islam only as a distorted copy of Christianity (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval Christians valued Qur’anic Christ references over Islamic monotheism (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians held an irreducibly equivocal attitude toward Qur’anic Christology (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval scholastics judged the Qur’an illogical for lacking their numbered format (similarity 0.81)
• Mediaeval Christian polemicists dismissed Quranic metaphors by misreading them as literal physics (similarity 0.81)
• Christian scholars read the Qur’an to argue it leans toward Christian orthodoxy (similarity 0.81)
• Western scholars equated Islamic morality with the possibility of Islamic self-critique (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval critics faulted the Qur’an for violating Aristotelian reason. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Western scholars judged the Qur’an human because its style failed scholastic standards #exemplifies (0.92) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 330
• Medieval Christian readers judged the Qur’an by its Christology #qualifies (0.80)
• Christian thinking forced Islam into Christian analogical categories, misrepresenting it #expands (0.80)
• Christian views of Islam reflected their own preconceptions more than actual Muslims #expands (0.72)