“Orient” never meant the Islamic world in medieval English

Evidence

The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), lists no medieval example of “Orient” or “oriental” being used to refer to the Islamic world. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 830

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: if the term Orient only acquired its Islamic/Muslim meaning later, when exactly did that semantic shift happen and what drove it?
• XREF: Connects to the Saidian thesis that ‘Orient’ as a constructed category is a modern Western project — the OED finding lends historical precision to that argument.