The turban was Renaissance Europe’s main visual marker of Islam

Evidence

Nabil I. Matar showed how the turban was the main visual marker of Islam in the European Renaissance, eclipsing in importance the crescent and the scimitar. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 164

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 164