Yahya the Renegade, Emir of Angliétèrre

Did anyone tell John that converting to Islam would mean giving up wine and beer? Most of the Plantagenets were pretty harder drinkers. On the other hand, since he wasn't a good Christian, is there any reason to expect he'd be a good Moslem?
 

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Did anyone tell John that converting to Islam would mean giving up wine and beer? Most of the Plantagenets were pretty harder drinkers. On the other hand, since he wasn't a good Christian, is there any reason to expect he'd be a good Moslem?

Probably just interprets those instructions in the Quran/hadith (I'm not totally sure where the injunction against alcohol was located and therefore just how much leeway there was) literally, only banning the specific things used as examples (date wine, IIRC).

Alternatively, a sudden spike in the "medicinal" use of alcohol. Also, an early start to the English tradition of tea-drinking, as well as various other steeped herbal beverages.
 
Did anyone tell John that converting to Islam would mean giving up wine and beer? Most of the Plantagenets were pretty harder drinkers. On the other hand, since he wasn't a good Christian, is there any reason to expect he'd be a good Moslem?

Of course that he won't be. And people always overestimating alcohol as hindrance to the spread of Islam....
 
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