Christian rhetoric conflated tributary Christians with enslaved captives

Evidence

The word servitude does not accurately describe the tributary situation of the Mozarabs and the Oriental Christians, although (in later authors) it can be understood fairly to define the state of individual Latin prisoners captured in fighting, or at the sack of towns, at either end of the In sirah txxxvur Ketton has “Tu namque doctor es, non coactor.’ — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 693

Categorization

• XREF: This rhetorical conflation — erasing the difference between dhimmi status and actual enslavement — is a concrete mechanism of the anti-Islam discursive construction the vault tracks.