Medieval polemicists depicted Islam as licentious through both prostitution and effeminacy

Evidence

In the Muslim sect any sexual act at all is not only not forbidden, but allowed and praised. So, as well as the innumerable prostitutes that there are among them, there are many effeminate men who shave the beard, paint their own face, put on women’s dress, wear bracelets on the arms and feet .. . The Muslims, therefore, forgetful of human dignity, are shamelessly attracted by those effeminates, and live together with them as with us husband and wife live together publicly. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 797

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s Muslim-as-constitutive-outside cluster — specifically the racialization of Muslim bodies as sexually deviant, echoing Razack’s ‘Casting Out’ on how sexual deviance marks the racialized Muslim.