Medieval Christian writers reproduced Ramadan’s facts accurately when omitting commentary

Evidence

Viterbo and the Gregorian Report were partly accurate; they knew that the sick and travellers were excused in Ramadan the fast they must later make up; Varagine, the dnonymus Minorita and Pennis followed Pedro de Alfonso in his factual statement about Ramadan, and not in his comment; and by doing so they achieved what was at once the most accurate and the least committed statement. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1233

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the inaccurate Night-meal detail in [1231], and ties into themes of Ibn Battuta-era cross-cultural tension and the Complaints About Immodesty essay’s angle on polemicizing the Other. — connects to: Only one medieval Latin source correctly identified the purpose of Ramadan