Soviet scientific atheists inherited medieval Christian anti-Islamic attitudes

Evidence

In a very few concluding notes I hope to suggest the changes in the Christian position that have come about very recently, so that a scientificatheist in the U.S.S.R. now adopts much of the mediaeval attitude, while Christians at last find themselves freed to develop something new; not, I suggest, something wholly new, but something that builds upon the work done in the Middle Ages and after, while giving up the old pejorative tone; that aims to illuminate and to fructify the relations of Christians with Muslims, and not to destroy understanding through hatred or malice or fear. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 78

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• QUESTION: Does the Russian-language scholarship on Islam actually track the medieval Latin polemical canon? Worth checking what this claim is based on.