Medieval polemic mocked Islamic dress as monastic garb without a head
Evidence
Guido Terrena said that Muslims inappropriately wear a monastic habit; but suitably this lacked the hood, because they lacked a true head, ‘and for head have the vile Muhammad’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 846
Categorization
- CANDY: The pun — Muslims lack a true head (their prophet), so their monastic hood is missing — is a compact, tweetable medieval dig.