Medieval polemic read Muslim clothing as a parody of monastic dress symbolizing false headship

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

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article as a further case of dress as religious-political signaling.
• CANDY: A vivid, self-contained medieval gotcha on Muslim dress as soulless monastic habit.