Medieval Christian polemicists dismissed Muslim ablution as Venusian effeminacy

Evidence

Wudi’ is the minor ritual ablution which involves washing only certain parts; Shi’is perform it always before salat, and Sunnis most often, because ritual minor impurities are so easily incurred. It is strange that Pedro, a Jew by upbringing, should have argued that ritual washings are an effeminacy properly belonging to the worship of Venus and therefore appropriately prescribed by Muhammad. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2332

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s dress-code/immodesty thread (sumptuary laws, Seneca on silk): medieval polemicists sexualized ‘Other’ religious practice by gendering it effeminate, same move seen in dress panics.