The aquiline nose functions as a recurring visual marker of Muslim monstrosity

Evidence

Dracula has an aquiline nose, a common attribute of Muslims found in numerous writings, including another of Stoker’s Muslim vampires. In The Mystery of the Sea (1902), the villain Don Bernardino is described as having this feature: “Don Bernardino, with his high aquiline nose and black eyes of eagle keenness, his proud bearing and the very swarthiness which told of Moorish descent.” Later in the story, it is revealed that this Moor, like Dracula, is a monster. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 542

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Serves the reader’s first guiding question — a specific recurring physical trait that manufacturing assigns to the Muslim monster.

Related

• Stoker reused aquiline noses to mark Muslim monsters (similarity 0.92)
• The dark-skinned Muslim monster persisted from medieval iconography into American imaginations (similarity 0.83)
• The Muslim-monster figure spans from bestial cynocephali to necrophiliac Gothic villains. (similarity 0.81)
• Ethnic monstrosity is read through physiognomy and distinctive facial features (similarity 0.79)
• Dracula’s monstrosity encodes anxiety about Ottoman-tainted European bloodlines (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The dark-skinned Muslim monster persisted from medieval iconography into American imaginations #expands (0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 161
• Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism #expands (0.65) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 75
• Representations of Muslims as monsters persist despite statistical evidence against them #corroborates (0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 38
• Orientalism sustains the credibility of preexisting Muslim monster images #corroborates (0.55) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 40
• The brain prioritizes threatening information, which explains why negative Muslim stereotypes persist despite counter-evidence #corroborates (0.40) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 662
• Torturers’ animalization of detainees mirrored the medieval monster image of Muslims #exemplifies (0.40) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 744