The Western view of Islam was fixed by 1350 and persists today

Evidence

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: An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350; A fixed polemical image of Islam served Western needs better than firsthand observation did.; The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1535 (+15 more)

Related

• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. (similarity 0.92)
• A fixed polemical image of Islam served Western needs better than firsthand observation did. (similarity 0.89)
• The Western canon on Islam outlived religious unity and the Reformation itself. (similarity 0.89)
• An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350 (similarity 0.88)
• Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged (similarity 0.87)
• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by the mid-fourteenth century (similarity 0.86)
• A coherent internal image of Islam survived because it was internally consistent (similarity 0.86)
• Vituperative anti-Islamic polemic persisted into the 1780s and 1790s. (similarity 0.84)
• The mediaeval Christian concept of Islam still shapes Western cultural inheritance today. (similarity 0.83)
• The medieval Christian canon about Islam survived even the breakup of European ideological unity (similarity 0.83)
• The mediaeval canon of Islam persisted into the present day (similarity 0.83)
• Mid-fifteenth-century European thought on Islam surpassed all earlier and later centuries (similarity 0.83)
• Renaissance scholarship long coexisted with unrevised medieval views of Islam. (similarity 0.83)
• Christian thought on Islam stagnated for four centuries after 1300 (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval Christians understood Islam only as a distorted copy of Christianity (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. #corroborates (0.95) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1535
• Medieval anti-Muslim imagery persists unbroken into modern Western culture #corroborates (0.90)
• The mediaeval Christian concept of Islam still shapes Western cultural inheritance today. #corroborates (0.90)
• Received portrayals of Islam resist correction and reabsorb facts into a fixed framework #expands (0.85)
• Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged #corroborates (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 37
• Christian thought on Islam stagnated for four centuries after 1300 #qualifies (0.80) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1357
• Europe’s lasting portrayals of Islam were fixed by the twelfth century #qualifies (0.75)
• European images of Islam crystallized by the thirteenth century. #qualifies (0.75)
• Western attitudes to Islam have shifted across history rather than forming a constant clash. #contradicts (0.75)
• The Mongols’ appearance transformed the Western world picture of Islam #qualifies (0.72) — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 245
• A coherent internal image of Islam survived because it was internally consistent #expands (0.72) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1506
• Western superiority over Muslims traces to the Middle Ages but changed form. #qualifies (0.72)
• Western hostility to Islam shifted from theological to political rationales across the centuries #contradicts (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 106
• Modern Western scholars retained medieval judgements about Muhammad. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Belief in a timeless Muslim essence underwrote the East-West hierarchy of progress #expands (0.70)