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