Criticism of Muhammad
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The first to criticize the Islamic prophet Muhammad were his non-Muslim Arab contemporaries, who decried him for preaching monotheism, and the Jewish tribes of Arabia, for what they claimed were unwarranted appropriation of Biblical narratives and figures[7] and vituperation of the Jewish faith.[7] For these reasons, medieval Jewish writers commonly referred to him by the derogatory nickname ha-Meshuggah (Hebrew: מְשֻׁגָּע, "the Madman" or "the Possessed").[8][9][10]
During the Middle Ages, various[3][5][6][11] Western and Byzantine Christian thinkers considered Muhammad to be a perverted,[3][6] deplorable man,[3][6] a false prophet,[3][4][5][6] and even the Antichrist,[3][5] as he was frequently seen in Christendom as a heretic[2][3][4][5][6] or possessed by demons.[2][6] Some of them, like Thomas Aquinas, criticized Muhammad's handling of doctrinal matters and his promises of carnal pleasure in the afterlife.[6]
Modern criticism has concerned Muhammad's sincerity as a prophet, his morality, his marriages, his sex life, his ownership of slaves and his psychological condition.[3][12][13][14] Muhammad has also been accused of sadism and cruelty in the treatment of his enemies, including in the invasion of the Banu Qurayza tribe in Medina.[15][16]