Public Islamic call to prayer felt intolerable to Christians in mixed quarters

Evidence

What is suggested by all these accounts is something that has been felt by travellers in many ages, that the public nature of the call to prayer makes it a great and solemn symbol of the unity of the Muslim community. It could not be distinguished from the prayer itself, and both together were the act of the whole quarter in which the mosque was situated. When that was in Christian territory it seemed to be a ‘reproach to the Christian faith’ and particularly intolerable where, as happened in Aragon, Muslims and Christians lived in the same quarter. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1160

Categorization

• XREF: Direct echo of the modern Western panic over loudspeaker adhan and minaret debates — the vault’s thread on Islam’s construction as constitutive outside gains a medieval genealogy here. Compare Aziz’s Racial Muslim treatment of sonic Muslim presence as threat.
• ADDENDUM: The audible-Islamic-presence-as-reproach dynamic parallels the soundscape material in the vault — noise-as-hostile-presence applied to Islamic sonic practice across centuries.