Medieval bestiaries transferred Jewish symbols onto Muslim monstrous figures. [causal]
The bestiary is one way in which monstrous identities are established, through Jewish symbols that are then transferred onto Muslim characters in Muslim cynocephalie.
DEFINE: Introduces the concept of 'cynocephali' and explains how bestiary traditions established monstrous identities through symbol transfer.
Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 212