A pope deemed the adhan a public insult to God
Evidence
Clement IV had a peculiar horror of the call to prayer; he called it contumelia Creatoris that among the worshippers of Christ the name of Muhammad should be publicly âextolledâ at certain hours of the day. â Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 663
Categorization
- XREF: This is an early instance of audible Islamic worship being framed as insult/provocation â a genealogy connecting to modern soundscape-regulatory complaints about the adhan (e.g., anti-noise and municipal cases); links to the readerâs One Square Inch / soundscape thread as much as the Islamophobia thread.
- QUESTION: Is there a documented continuity between Clement IVâs contumelia Creatoris framing and modern municipal or legal complaints depicting the adhan as noise? Worth chasing.