William of Tripoli uniquely reworked Qur’anic texts to glorify Christ.

Evidence

Tripoli … His accurate use of the text of the Qur’an is unique; he used it to tell how Muhammad praised Christ ‘above all the sons of men, and Mary above all women’, carefully rearranging most of the pertinent texts in a scheme which paragraphed long consecutive passages and associated isolated verses, to produce one continuous text. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 936

Categorization

• QUESTION: What motivated Tripoli’s genuinely different approach? Worth chasing — it seems to be an exception to the polemical pattern the chapter describes.