Muslims revere God’s name with practices medieval Europeans observed.

Evidence

The Muslims indeed have the greatest reverence for the name of God, and for prophets and saints and holy places. It is especially their practice to do or say or write nothing important without beginning in the name of the Lord. So in all written matter that they send to each other they reverently write the name of God first, and for this reason they diligently see to it that no written thing is torn up or thrown down on the ground. However, if they do find on the ground a piece of paper that has been written on, they reverently pick it up and put it high up in cracks in walls, lest the name of God be trampled on. Whenever they come across the name of God, either reading or speaking, they never dare to pronounce it alone, but always with some word of praise, such as, ‘God, may He be praised’ or some such. Rather more grudgingly, Lull spoke of the great devotion of Muslim preachers and congregations. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1148

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does the written-name protection practice (papers placed in wall cracks) derive from a scriptural injunction? Worth verifying against Islamic sources on reverence for Allah’s name.