Jamal Awil

← Muslims in the Western Imagination

Medieval narratives framed conversion as becoming fully human. [fact]

This narrative promises that the Muslim will be transformed into a human if he or she converts to Christianity. In another story, a Saracen infant is transformed from a lump into a human:

XREF: Relates to postcolonial and critical race scholarship on dehumanization of religious/racial others in medieval Christian discourse.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 109