Medieval polemicists called the Muslim Paradise a brothel and tavern
Evidence
With these attitudes of contempt was allied a sense of unreality sharply expressed: ‘what will Paradise be, but a tavern of unwearied gorging and a brothel of perpetual turpitude?’ — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 824
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The carnal Paradise was the central symbol of Christian anti-Islam polemic