Forced teaching of captive Saracens aimed to produce voluntary converts turned missionaries

Evidence

Yet in this same work, Llull gives coercion an important place: Christians should use the power they have over Saracen and Jewish captives to teach them by force the tenets of Christianity, with the hope that they may (voluntarily) convert and then become missionaries to their own people. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1299

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the vault’s existing claims about how Christian coercive missionizing over Muslims rationalized itself as liberating rather than forcible — parallels Anidjar’s genealogy of the Crusade/mission binary.