During the Middle Ages, the word Saracen was widely used in Europe to name the Arabs, but today this term is obsolete, so how did this transition happen?

by MichaelVeilleux
Stormtemplar

I wrote fairly extensively on the history of the word here and promptly got overambitious (I am not an Early Modernist) and was corrected on the transition by u/sunagainstgold. Happy to try and address any followup you might have though!