Anti-Jewish rhetoric and anti-Muslim rhetoric are similar. Guibert of Nogent's account of Muhammad's death describes an afflicted body, mirroring contemporaneous anti-Semitic writings about diseased Jewish bodies. The account of Muhammad's death in this work “echoes, in its focus on the body and bodily debility, the stories involving Jews in the Memoirs.” In Guibert's well-known account, pigs overtake Muhammad while he is while having an epileptic seizure and consume his body:

XREF: Connects to larger patterns of how medieval Christian polemic constructed religious others through bodily difference — parallels scholarship on monstrous bodies and religious boundary-making.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 99