I cannot find any consensus as to who the saracens were conceived to be by Europeans; in Procopius’ Secret history they are referred to, but I was under the belief that the Saracens was a catch all term for Muslims. Since Procopius wrote before the foundation of Islam, that cannot be the case. Was the name “Saracen” derived from an Arabic tribe, and was later applied to all Muslims by medieval European writers? Or do I have all of it wrong, being completely lost?