Medieval Christians projected their own apocalyptic hopes onto Saracen astrologers.

Evidence

This very year, as the wise astrologers and necromancers of the Saracens say, [Baybars] will die, and after him will arise another Turk, who will die within a year in his own dominions, and after these things should arise the dominion of Christ and the standard of the cross will be raised and borne through all Syria up to Caesarea of Cappadocia, and there will be a great commotion on earth. The true knower of these things is God. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1065

Categorization

• CANDY: The author attributes favorable prophecy to ‘wise astrologers and necromancers of the Saracens’ — smearing the source while borrowing its authority.
• XREF: connects to: Medieval thinkers speculated about astrological causes of religious difference.