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At least in prescriptive religious texts, Islam rejects the practice of bowing down to anyone but God, and the canonic report about the prophetβs delegation to Ethiopia specifically states that the Muslims refused to bow down to the Negus, but none the less found favour with him. (I am citing this not as a real historic event but as a normative religious statement). I suspect therefore that Maimonides is referring not to Muslim kings of his own time, but to the assumed situation at the time of the ancient Israelite kings.