Crusade chroniclers conflated Muslim Spain with the Saracen East
Evidence
Both Raymond dâAguilers and Ekkehard of Aura use âHispaniaâ to refer to the areas under Saracen control; this suggests that they saw a close parallel between the ïŹght against the Saracens in both East and West. â John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1682
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Connects usefully to the composition/immodesty and sacrifice articlesâ underlying interest in how one unified âSaracenâ enemy was constructed across geographic frontiers (East/West).