Yet however one chooses to judge the persisting of Crusading ideology, it is essential to consider as well a discourse that is inextricably bound up with it, one remarkably uniform throughout the centuries, an ideology we might dub the Saracen doxology to emphasize its descent from medieval ways of constructing the Saracen other as well as its perdurable, almost catechistic character.

XREF: Connects to postcolonial criticism and Edward Said's orientalism, and to the reader's broader work on discursive constructions of the other. DEFINE: Introduces and defines the concept of the 'Saracen doxology' — a catechistic, centuries-long ideology constructing the Saracen as other.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 668