Medieval anti-Saracen textual traditions survived unbroken into modern orientalism

Evidence

This is not to deny that these writings form textual traditions, and individual writers were reacting to these textual traditions, as well as to their particular historical contexts. Moreover, these traditions continued well beyond the thirteenth century—indeed in some respects until the twentieth: the orientalism in the writings of William of Rubruck, Fidentius of Padua, or Riccoldo da Montecroce finds an echo in some of the nineteenthand twentieth-century texts discussed by Edward Said in Orientalism; debates about how “Spanish” or how “Arab” was medieval Iberia rage hot in nineteenthand twentieth-century Spain. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1375

Categorization

• XREF: This is the exact genealogical bridge the reader wants: it names the continuity from medieval anti-Islam polemic into the nineteenth-century orientalism discussed by Said, which underlies Anidjar/Aziz/Razack.