Rapid Muslim conquest produced violent Christian anticolonial backlash in Spain

Evidence

These men, like the Syrians of John of Damascus’s day, were seeing the world around them change, becoming foreigners in their native land, no longer speaking the same language as their children. This “colonization” is more sudden in Spain than it had been in the Near East; the “anticolonial” reaction against it, on the part of Eulogius and others, will be all the more violent. And the Andalusian bishops will be caught in the middle. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 504

Categorization

• XREF: Places medieval Christian anti-Muslim polemic as an anticolonial reaction, mirroring the colonizer-colonized dynamics Anidjar traces in modern Islamophobia.