When did the Crusades begin?
Crusades
The Arabic loanword Muslim is first attested in English in the 17th century. Before this the common term for Muslim was Saracen,[15] in origin referring to the pre-Islamic, non-Arab inhabitants of the desert areas around the Roman province of Arabia.[16] The term evolved to include Arab tribes, and by the 12th century it was an ethnic and religious marker in Medieval Latin literature corresponding to modern "Muslim".[17]