Medieval Christians recognized Islamic propriety in mosque cleanliness
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 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Medieval Christian writers admired Islamic worship’s dignity and were willing to copy it — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1200
Related
- Medieval Christian writers admired Islamic worship’s dignity and were willing to copy it (similarity 0.94)
- Medieval Christians admired mosque decorum while condemning Islam itself. (similarity 0.93)
- Medieval Christians saw Muslim mosque reverence as surprising propriety (similarity 0.89)
- Christians had incidental knowledge of mosque cleanliness but were barred from worship. (similarity 0.85)
- Medieval Christians recognized Islam as morally demanding, not merely permissive (similarity 0.83)
- Medieval Christian critics mirrored modern assumptions about Muslim shrine devotion (similarity 0.81)
- Medieval Christians avoided studying Islamic ritual because it drew no easy condemnation. (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval Christian writers recognized Islam shared their moral precepts (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval praise of Muslims recorded genuinely observed Islamic virtues (similarity 0.80)
- Medieval writers ignored Islamic ritual because praising it served no polemic purpose (similarity 0.79)
- Christian writers read mosque conversion of churches as deliberate profanation (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christians read Muhammad’s life as a failed imitation of Christ (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Latin missionaries almost never described actual mosque interiors. (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christians found Muhammad’s stated pleasures profoundly scandalous (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christians interpreted Muslim ablutions through their own categories rather than Islam’s (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Medieval Christian writers admired Islamic worship’s dignity and were willing to copy it
#exemplifies(0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1200