Even learned medieval polemicists had to correct the pagan view of Saracens.

Evidence

The image is so common that writers on Islam who know better—from the twelfth century on—go to great pains to explain that the Saracens are not pagans. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 702

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the modern trope-resisting counter-current existed within medieval Christendom itself — nuanced Islam ‘expertise’ (like the Good Orientalism the vault tracks) has medieval precedent, contradicting a fully monolithic-other reading.