The Western canon on Islam outlived religious unity and the Reformation itself.

Evidence

So much did this canon suit the need that it survived many changes in the relative positions of Islam and Christendom and in the interior movements of Christian opinion. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1508 (#expands, via linked claim)

Except for some shifts in emphasis, and for the increasing neglect of certain arguments, notably those defending the integrity of the text of the Scriptures, we may say that the views just summarised outline the Western ‘canon’ of what constitutes Islam. We are entitled to say that this canon was formed during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the earlier part of the fourteenth, by the absorption of Oriental, Byzantine and Mozarab traditions and, to a lesser extent, of experience. By the middle of the fourteenth century it was firmly established in Europe; and it was to continue into the future so powerfully as to aftect many generations, even up to the present day. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1535 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 157; A self-serving religious canon outlived the power shifts that gave rise to it — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1508; The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1535 (+2 more)

Related

• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. (similarity 0.91)
• A self-serving religious canon outlived the power shifts that gave rise to it (similarity 0.91)
• The Western view of Islam was fixed by 1350 and persists today (similarity 0.89)
• The medieval Christian canon about Islam survived even the breakup of European ideological unity (similarity 0.87)
• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by the mid-fourteenth century (similarity 0.87)
• Renaissance scholarship long coexisted with unrevised medieval views of Islam. (similarity 0.85)
• The mediaeval canon of Islam persisted into the present day (similarity 0.84)
• Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged (similarity 0.83)
• An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350 (similarity 0.83)
• The West’s polemical image of Islam was self-serving rather than descriptive (similarity 0.82)
• The Latin canon of Islam was built from earlier Eastern Christian polemics. (similarity 0.82)
• A fixed polemical image of Islam served Western needs better than firsthand observation did. (similarity 0.82)
• Islam was always positioned as fixable within a universal Christian reunion (similarity 0.81)
• A coherent internal image of Islam survived because it was internally consistent (similarity 0.81)
• Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• A self-serving religious canon outlived the power shifts that gave rise to it #expands (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1508
• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. #corroborates (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1535
• Europe’s lasting portrayals of Islam were fixed by the twelfth century #corroborates (0.80)
• Reformation polemics redeployed medieval constructs of Islam unchanged #expands (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 157
• Reformation-era anti-Islamic polemic drew on medieval translations and texts #expands (0.72) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1355