The Egyptian croco-sapien is an example of the construction of marvelous fictive creatures that were situated in fantasies about Muslims. It is worth remembering here that fantasies about Muslim sexual monstrosity have a long history; one only needs to recall the claims of Prophet Muhammad's sexual superpowers, the reports of gargantuan Muslim penises that Jews and Christians would have to carry into heaven, or the wild stories contained in the Turcica. The croco-sapien is but another example of a wild and fantastic monster that emerged out of the habitus of Muslim monsters:

XREF: Connects to broader Orientalist discourse and Edward Said's critique of how the West constructed the Muslim Other. QUESTION: Worth tracing how these sexual-monstrosity fantasies evolved from medieval to modern Islamophobia.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 419