The same raw source material can be shaped into opposite polemical portraits

Evidence

To read San Pedro and Ibn Ishaq side by side is to be given a striking lesson in the way the same material can be used in order to give totally different impressions. If San Pedro, who knew Islam, was unwilling to surrender any ‘Christian’ story, it is not surprising that less well-informed writers were more so. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1320

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of how competing medieval polemicists scavenged shared sources - reminiscent of how critical theorists discuss the politicization of narrative framing. — connects to: Identical source material can yield opposite religious impressions