Even hostile medieval Christian observers wanted to replicate mosque worship practices

Evidence

What was so much appreciated was a certain seemliness and dignity which have always marked the ancient places of study and of worship in Islam. This was true of the ordinary mosques. Lull would have liked to copy the segregation of sexes for the use of churches, and Giovanni d’Andrea, in his Clementine Gloss, remarked the same thing with favour, and also the way people entered a mosque with bare, washed feet, et cum certa devotione. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1200 (#expands, via linked claim)

That is particularly exemplified by the stress on such points as the humanity of Muhammad, which were significant only from the Christian point of view. Those things were stressed that appealed to Christians as scandalous, not those that Muslims think important; and in this kind of picture-building exaggerations had an important part. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1472 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even hostile observers testified to Muslims’ fervent regular prayer in the desert; Medieval polemic attacked Muslim aspects that scandalized Christian observers — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1472; Medieval Christians saw Muslim mosque reverence as surprising propriety — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1201 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Medieval Christians admired mosque decorum while condemning Islam itself. #expands (0.95) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1200
• Medieval polemic attacked Muslim aspects that scandalized Christian observers #complicates (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1472