Medieval Muslims could accept Christian scripture as true yet decline to convert.

Evidence

The Muslims responded, “We grant you that your faith is true and that whatever is in the Gospel is true, therefore we do not wish to argue on any point with you.” William goes on to affirm that “in all their prayers they [the Muslims] beseech God to grant that they may die a Christian death.” … The debate ended with loud singing by the Christians and Muslims, and everyone went off to drink. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1139

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme in this book and in ‘A Midwife’s Tale’ sensibility about how power structures talk past each other; also the tolerance-vs-conversion question parallels interfaith-relations scholarship. — connects to: Muslims could seek baptism as magic rather than as conversion
• SEED: An essay on historical precedents for religious coexistence that is not conversion — mutual acceptance of scriptural truth without either side converting.