Seventh-century Christians perceived mass conversion to Islam as a threat

Evidence

This text provides strong evidence that large-scale conversions now were perceived as a threat by Christians such as the pseudo-Methodius; this piece of evidence seems to have been overlooked in the debates over the demography of conversion from Christianity to Islam (see chap. 2). — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1507

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking whether later Islamophobic tropes about ‘dhimmitude’ and demographic anxiety originate in this early conversion-fear, before modern demography politics.
• XREF: connects to: Religious leaders stoked fears of mass conversion to justify anti-Christian violence — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 243