The Sowdan’s hospitality in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale reflects real Muslim virtue.

Evidence

A possible example of the distant penetration of the fame of real Muslim virtues is the hospitality offered by the Sowdan of Surrye in the Man of Law’s Tale. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2307

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my interest in how reputation of distant cultures penetrates literary tradition — like the diamond trade’s reputation systems, but cross-cultural and literary.