Medieval Christians admired mosque decorum while condemning Islam itself.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vault’s picture of a monolithic hostile Christian construction of Islam — some cultural practices were genuinely admired, challenging any purely negative framing.