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Petrus Alfonsi on the Cult at Mecca

Petrus Alfonsi, a Spanish Jew who converted to Christianity in the first years of the twelfth century, became an influential anti-Jewish polemicist and an important transmitter of Arabic science and literary themes to Latin Europe.* He also gave the medieval West some of its most accurate knowledge of Islam.' But not all of Alfonsi's information on Islam is of uniform quality. In an intriguing passage on the origin of the Meccan cult, Alfonsi reveals to his readers the following secret history: