Medieval Christian descriptions of Islam omitted Qur’anic recitation entirely.

Evidence

An unexpected omission was the reading aloud of the Qur’an, which takes an important part in the life of a Muslim city, where the Qur’an reader is an artist much in demand. It may have been of this that one Christian was thinking when he contrasted Christian psalmody with the abhominabilis melodia of Islam. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1196

Categorization

• XREF: The constructed Islam of the vault thread is selective — what is left out (here, recited Qur’an as aesthetic practice) is as telling as what is misread.