The same act of religious conversion reads as apostasy or enlightenment depending on perspective

Evidence

Sometimes the experts went as adventurers; sometimes they became what the Christians called renegades and what the Muslims called Muhtadi, one who has found the true path—the same thing of course, from a different perspective. A number of European officers went and served in various Middle Eastern armies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; some were converted to Islam, some not. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 755

Categorization

• DEFINE: Muhtadi — one who has found the true path — is a term worth pinning down for the Islam-West representation cluster.
• XREF: The renegade/Muhtadi double-naming is a live exemplar of Said’s point that terminology is perspective-bound knowledge production.