The same Muslim defamation tradition undergirds conquest and home rule alike
Evidence
- Reprobatio vi; Ricoldo, Disp. x11; SSM 1.iv.6. 58. Vitry (1.v) said that Muhammad taught that Muslims need not keep faith with their enemies, and San Pedro warned that Muslims would not observe oaths nisi ibi propriam utilitatem videant; ‘an accusation common among enemies’: e.g. used against each other by Catholics and Protestants. Most later travellers had something to say on the trustworthiness of Muslims (see bibliography). — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2209 (
#expands, via linked claim)
In the Crusade, he maintained, it was not the innocent who were attacked, as happened in the West, when poor farmers and hospitals and leper-colonies suffered; on the contrary, the Muslim nation was summa culpabilis. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 644 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The domestic Muslim enemy is fought with the same methods as the foreign one — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 613; Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition; Familiar cultural templates make hateful Muslim portrayals feel acceptable — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 750 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition
#corroborates(1.00) - Familiar cultural templates make hateful Muslim portrayals feel acceptable
#expands(1.00) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 750 - Anti-Muhammad tropes were repurposed to attack domestic political figures
#complicates(1.00) - Medieval crusading ideology constructed Muslims as collectively guilty
#complicates(1.00) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 644 - Spanish Christians under Muslim rule forged anti-Islam polemics for the same reasons
#complicates(1.00) - Perfidy toward Muslims was already a shared polemical trope
#expands(1.00) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2209