Vituperative anti-Islamic polemic persisted into the 1780s and 1790s.

Evidence

Leibniz depicts Muslims as an accumulation of “barbarous Mohammedans, lazy Turks, and lascivious Egyptians.” He also insists that Muslims are fatalistic, a result of Islam’s inability to deal with its foundations—what he refers to as the Fatum Mahometanum. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 363 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian anti-Islamic polemic stayed medieval in method until the 1700s.; Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 37; Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition (+6 more)

Related

• Eighteenth-century rationalists recycled medieval Muslim stereotypes (similarity 0.89)
• Christian anti-Islamic polemic stayed medieval in method until the 1700s. (similarity 0.88)
• False statements about Islam persisted for centuries because community good seemed to require them (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition (similarity 0.85)
• An established anti-Islamic literature existed in the West by 1350 (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Islamic polemic froze into its framework by the thirteenth century (similarity 0.84)
• Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged (similarity 0.84)
• Informed medieval polemicists still clung to untenable anti-Muslim fables (similarity 0.84)
• The Western view of Islam was fixed by 1350 and persists today (similarity 0.84)
• Vincent’s anti-Islamic method was data-driven rather than argumentative (similarity 0.84)
• Renaissance scholarship long coexisted with unrevised medieval views of Islam. (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Islamic polemic survived nearly unchanged into the imperialist nineteenth century. (similarity 0.83)
• Christian anti-Islamic polemic targeted Christian readers, not Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Hostile Christian descriptions of Islam repeated themselves virtually unchanged across centuries (similarity 0.82)
• A fixed polemical image of Islam served Western needs better than firsthand observation did. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged #contradicts (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 37
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric was founded in the Middle Ages and persists into today #expands (0.80)
• Eighteenth-century rationalists recycled medieval Muslim stereotypes #corroborates (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 363
• European anti-Muslim polemic images persisted virtually unchanged from medieval to modern eras #corroborates (0.80)
• Christian anti-Islamic polemic stayed medieval in method until the 1700s. #contradicts (0.75)
• Anti-Islamic polemic froze into its framework by the thirteenth century #contradicts (0.75) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 382
• Orientalist discourse was a juncture rather than a continuous line of anti-Islam thought #qualifies (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 189
• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition #complicates (0.70)
• Anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition, not through single fixed texts #expands (0.70) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 91