Western canonical literature fixes Mohammed in a rigid hierarchy of evils

Evidence

Mohammed thus belongs to a rigid hierarchy of evils, in the category of what Dante calls seminator di scandalo e di scisma. Mohammed’s punishment, which is also his eternal fate, is a peculiarly disgusting one: he is endlessly being cleft in two from his chin to his anus like, Dante says, a cask whose staves are ripped apart. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 183

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• SEED: The specific Dante placement of Mohammed could anchor an essay on how medieval canonical texts encoded Islam’s othering.
• SHARE: For someone working on medieval representations of Islam, the precise bolgia placement and the Dolcino parallel is a sharp detail.

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• Medieval Christian schema ranked Mohammed among the most severe evils in Hell (similarity 0.87)
• Medieval Christianity saw Muhammad as a schismatic Christian, not an external infidel. (similarity 0.81)
• Dante’s Muhammad was a schismatic Christian subplot, not an infidel outsider (similarity 0.79)