Papal theory pressed for expulsion of Muslims while princes actually tolerated them

Evidence

IV had a peculiar horror of the call to prayer; he called it contumelia Creatoris that among the worshippers of Christ the name of Muhammad should be publicly ‘extolled’ at certain hours of the day. He addressed a long and eloquent appeal to Jaime the Conqueror, I of Aragon, begging that prince to put down his Muslim and Jewish subjects, and pressing upon him that programme of expulsion which would in fact be effected only at the very end of the fifteenth century. Jaime’s practice tolerated Islamic worship, enforced Islamic law, ‘according to the sunna’, for Muslims, and ensured the right of Muslims to teach their sons their religion, specifically, the Qur’an and the hadith; but we are concerned with the theory of the Church, not with the compromises of day-to-day politics. The position of Muslims in Christendom approximated temporarily to that of tributary Christians in Islam, except that the ultimate aim was their conversion. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 663

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the pattern in the reader’s sacrifice material: ecclesiastical theory vs. princely practice of coexistence, like theory vs. compromises in other cross-cultural contexts. — connects to: A pope pressed for expulsion that a king’s tolerance postponed by centuries