Wine prohibitions created legal friction between Muslim majorities and non-Muslim minorities.

Evidence

A recurring problem was that of wine, forbidden to Muslims but not to non- Muslims. Difficulties inevitably arose when two groups of people, Jews and Christians, were free to make, sell, and drink wine, and the Muslim majority was not. There are numerous decrees and regulations dealing with such questions—how one prevents the Jews and Christians from selling wine to the Mus­ lims, and even the problem of Muslim guests at Jewish or Christian weddings, at which wine is served. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 232

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Sharpens the moral-panics article with a concrete domain where a majority’s religious rule generated policing of minority communal life — wine as the contested substance.