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The term Saracen comes from Greek sarakenoi.

In the early centuries of the Roman Empire it was used as the name of an Arab tribe in the Sinai, apparently taken from the Arabic word شرقيين sharqiyyin ("easterners").

Later the Greek-speaking subjects of the Empire applied it to all Arabs. After the rise of Islam, and especially at the time of the Crusades, its usage was extended to all Muslims, particularly those in Sicily and southern Italy. In older Western historical literature, the term "Saracen Empire" was often used to refer to the first Arab Caliphate, ruled by the Umayyad and AbbasidHarun al-Rashid Abbasid was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Muslim empire. The Abbasid empire was after the Umayyid Empire. The Abbasid caliphs officially based their claim to dynasties.

In ChristianChristian is: a follower of the faith of Christianity a popular first name and surname, especially in Northern Europe According to the New Testament, those who followed Jesus as his disciples were first called Christians by those who did not share their f polemical writing against Islam, the name was made to mean "those empty of SarahSarah "Princess", Standard Hebrew Sara Tiberian Hebrew Srh is a biblical matriarch and the wife of Abraham, the patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Her story is told in the Book of Genesis. For most of her life she was childless (Gen. She accom" or "not from Sarah", as Arabs were descended from HagarIn the Book of Genesis Hagar "Stranger", Standard Hebrew Hagar Tiberian Hebrew Hr Arabic Hajar is an Egyptian-born servant of Sarah, wife of Abraham. Her main significance in the story is as the mother of Ishmael. As was the custom, the childless Sarah of.