Is the world still living in the shadow of the crusades?
For several centuries in the Middle Ages, Christians waged a ‘holy war’ aiming in part – ostensibly, at least – to liberate the Holy Land. Six experts discuss the question, […]
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Look Inside The Crusades Through Arab Eyes By Amin Maalouf Category: Middle Eastern World History Paperback– Look Inside (yes, please do) ABOUT THE CRUSADES THROUGH ARAB EYES The author has combed the […]
Remembering Crusader cannibalism in Syria
12 December 1098 the Crusader siege of Ma’arrat Al-Numan came to a gruesome end. A European army led by a knight named Raymond Pilet D’Ales entered the city after its surrender […]
Jihad: Orientalism and knowledgeable ignorance
Sep 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Nedal Al- Mousa The term “knowledgeable ignorance” is used by the authors of a book titled “Why do People Hate America” to refer to […]
Why Muslims See the Crusades So Differently from Christians
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy They weren’t all battles and bloodshed. There was also coexistence, political compromise, trade, scientific exchange—even love. […]
What really happened during the Crusades?
D.D. Emmons 3 years ago Most often we associate the term “Crusades” with an effort by the European Christians of the Middle Ages to take back the Holy Land, specifically […]
History Channel: Why Muslims See the Crusades So Differently from Christians
Source: History channel By Missy Sullivan They weren’t all battles and bloodshed. There was also coexistence, political compromise, trade, scientific exchange—even love. It’s often said that winners dictate history. Not […]
From Belize: The myth of our inferiority
The myth of our inferiority Editorial — 10 February 2018 “The last Crusaders fled the Islamic world in 1291, driven out by Egypt’s mamluks, but in Europe residues of the Crusades persisted for years to come.” “The crusading spirit persisted in part because over the course of the real crusades, […]
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Book Review)
By Ricardo B. Salinas Volumes have been written about the Crusades, the series of wars in which European Christians sought to take, by any means, the holy places under Muslim […]
Why Jews and Muslims Both Have Religious Claims on Jerusalem
History Stories By Becky Little // December 7, 2017 7 ” /> Jerusalem Although Israel’s official capital is Tel Aviv, the country has long considered Jerusalem as its unofficial capitalJerusalem, […]
Islamophobes want to recreate the Crusades. But they don’t understand them at all.
They weren’t a clash of civilizations, or a war of Christianity against Islam. By Matthew Gabriele June 6 Follow @prof_gabriele Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies in the department […]
The Crusades – an Arab Perspective
LATEST http://players.brightcove.net/665003303001/SJg0bzqkZ_default/index.html?videoId=5237374177001&autoplay Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem Background to the holy wars and the First Crusade’s conquest of Jerusalem, a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims TUNE IN HERE: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-crusades-an-arab-perspective/
The destruction of morality
The shame of Abu Ghraib prison is part of a long tradition that goes back to the Crusades Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 2 comments Iraq, 7 May 2004 […]
The Case Against the Case Against the Crusades
BY ROSS DOUTHAT, THE NEW YORK TIMES FEBRUARY 10, 2015 In my Sunday column on the controversy surrounding President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, I tried to explain what I saw as the problems with the president’s “high horse” references to Western Christian sins without letting the column get sucked […]
PBS Documentary: Islam: The Empire of Faith
PBS.org: Islam, followed by more than a billion people today, is the world’s fastest growing religion and will soon be the world’s largest. The 1.2 billion Muslims make up approximately […]