A medieval haircut could mark a man as betraying his ethnic community

Evidence

Dark-skinned Muslims found in medieval psalters, paintings, poetry, and romances are not always monstrous, but their blackness indicates that they are evil. In an image from fourteenth-century France depicting a battle, the Muslim soldiers wear turbans and have dark eyes, but perhaps what is most interesting is the face on their shields—an African man. This is but one indication of how Muslims were related not just to Jews, but also to Africans. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group.; Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201

Related

• Blackness coded Muslim evil in medieval art, linking Muslims to Africans. (similarity 0.85)
• Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery (similarity 0.84)
• Dark skin signified sin and the devil in Christian theology from the fifth century. (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christian chroniclers racialized dark-skinned Muslims as diabolical and deceptive. (similarity 0.81)
• The dark-skinned Muslim monster persisted from medieval iconography into American imaginations (similarity 0.81)
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought (similarity 0.80)
• A hairstyle change could cost a medieval man his ethnic identity (similarity 0.80)
• A hairstyle change could mark a man as betraying his race in eleventh-century England (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christians racialized Muslims as black, bestial, and lustful (similarity 0.79)
• Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval racialization wrote ethnic anxieties onto Muslim bodies as overlapping afflictions (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval Europeans did not view dark-skinned Africans as naturally inferior. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptians read black skin as contradicting cultural and linguistic Egyptianness (similarity 0.78)
• Muslim males in Gothic horror are framed as essentially evil, deviant, and child-murdering (similarity 0.78)
• Renaissance art linked dark skin to Satan and Muslim villainy (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. #expands (0.70)
• Blackness itself, not monstrosity, signified Muslim evil in medieval imagery #expands (0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 201