[walrus01]

If you read translations of early medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe, they were almost all universally appalled by the state of hygiene and sewage/waste in major cities in general.

Not saying people didn't bathe at all but it clearly didn't meet societally acceptable standards of an educated person from Cairo or Baghdad.

[rendall]

> medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe

There was only one IIRC, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, who wrote disparagingly only of the habits of the Vikings of the upper Volga river.

[drops]

Could you recommend some of the mentioned translations?

[selimthegrim]

Kath and Gurganj were not exactly up to their standards either.