Western Christian anti-Islamic polemic stabilized after 1100 and persists unchanged

Evidence

There has been a natural variety within the wider unity of that tradition, and the European West has long had its own characteristic view, which was formed in the two centuries or so after 1100, and which has been modified only slowly since. One chief reason for continuity has been, not only the normal passage of ideas from one author to the next, but the constant nature of the problem. The points in which Islam and Christianity differ have not changed, so that Christians have always tended to make the same criticisms; and even when, in relatively modern times, some authors have self-consciously tried to emancipate themselves from Christian attitudes, they have not generally been as successful as they thought themselves. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my broader interest in how doctrinal differences keep polemical traditions frozen in time rather than evolving. — connects to: The Western view of Islam was fixed by 1350 and persists today; Vituperative anti-Islamic polemic persisted into the 1780s and 1790s.; Christian anti-Islamic polemic stayed medieval in method until the 1700s.