Seventeenth-century European lay culture still caricatured Muhammad as the Antichrist figure

Evidence

Mahomet (whose name Arabically signifies Deceit, and many times Conventunt rebus nomina saepe suis; attording also the number 666 the marke of Antichrist,) having accomplisht his desires, and runne his race, 1s summond to appeare before the Lord of all flesh, the God Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Judge of all mens actions; where (no doubt) he received a just judgement for his impiety. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1571

Categorization

• DEFINE: Conventunt rebus nomina saepe suis is cited approvingly as a polemical slogan, meaning ‘names often match the things’.
• SHARE: This exact grotesque passage would delight a friend who studies early-modern European Islamophobia and prophecy literature.