The friar orientalist Giulio Basetti-Sani (d. 2001) developed many creative hypotheses about the role of Islam in salvation history, including a reading of the Qurʾān as a confirmation of Christian doctrine, enabling him to evaluate it more positively than many other Christian theologians. While many of his ideas were dismissed at the time as idiosyncratic or theologically questionable, some elements of Basetti-Sani's Franciscan vision of Islam never received a fair hearing or evaluation in the theological community. This paper highlights some of these loose ends, focusing in particular on the friar's suggestion that a Scotistic framework offers distinctive resources for a renewed theology of religion that dominant Thomist frameworks in the period did not.