Jerome first claimed Saracens falsely assumed Sarah’s name to seem free-born

Evidence

Isidore seems to be taking this identification from Jerome, who in his Commentarii in Ezechielem writes “madianaeos, ismaelitas et agarenos—qui nunc saraceni appellantur, assumentes sibi falso nomen sarae quo scilicet de ingenua et domina uideantur esse generati,” CCSL 75:25. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1409

Categorization

• XREF: The naming-as-polemical-claim tradition echoes how names function as identity weapons elsewhere in the reader’s research on Islamophobia and naming.