Saladin

In 1095 at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban II gave a speech that would affect the church for many years to come. He declared that church was going to try and get the Holy Land back from the Seljuk Turks in battles that would be known as the Crusades. Since the mid-seventh century, the Muslims had controlled the Holy Land and had prevented Catholics from entering Jerusalem to make pilgrimages. The Catholics saw gaining the Holy Land back as a sacred duty because the Muslims were…

Maci Frantz Islam: Empire of Faith The main subject of the movie is to describe Islam and its history. The movie included the history background on Islam/Koran, Muslims, Muhammad, Saladin, Mehmet, Suleyman, and Christians. It also focused on buildings from the Romans and innovations such as math, engineering, astronomy, medicine, and paper. Some good things about the movie was that it was very detailing on the different religions and what they did. It also would be a good movie to watch if…

Throughout history the Muslim and Christian religions were thought to be similar but weren’t always provided with the specific details on how they were. From how they were both discovered, to similar beliefs. The religions are more similar than you think. In “Two Face of “Holy War”: Christians and Muslims (1095-1270s)” the author gives us an in-depth view of how the religions viewed each other while providing us with similarities and differences within the religions. The article starts off…

Europe as an entity within medieval times was strictly Christian and to understand this, it begins with the church. The church was the only voice between the bible and the people, this gave the church most of the power of how the common person perceived the bible and religion, this gave the church high authority over many day to day dealings. Christianity for 100 years had been a belief system unrivalled by other any other belief or mythologies. Islam was a threat to the Christian ideal, this is…

of the region started. By the end of the 7th century, Caliphs started to build religious infrastructure solidifying Muslim interest in the region (Bickerton, n.d.). The Crusaders took control of Palestine in 1099. But Jerusalem was reconquered by Saladin by 1187, and created a new Muslim dynasty; the Ayyubids, they ruled over Palestine, and restored Jerusalem to Islam. They eventually lost to the Mamluks. In 1260, the Mamluks took control of Palestine, and the last of the crusaders were driven…

Eastern people and a greater sense of nationalism was seen throughout the people. “Generations of Arab school children have been taught that the crusades were a clear case of good versus evil… Arab leaders continue to evoke this recovered memory of Saladin… The great and heroic leader led the Muslims to victory capturing Jerusalem and defeating the invaders” (Madden 203). As for the economical long term effects of the crusades on the Middle East, the book states, “The Muslim world was growing to…

The world is an amazing place with amazing people; people who sacrifice morals, rights and lives for the sake of power and prestige and greatness and renown– pursuing them as though they are their own lives running from them and they must capture them at all costs. Laleh Khadivi 's The Age of Orphans (set in Iran) recounts the enduring story of these amazing people and those who suffer under their greatness hunt, focusing on the loss of identity and the effects of forced assimilation through…

Second and Third Crusade, it ended up leading to even more tension between the East and West Church. In fact, during the Third Crusade that began a mere 13 years before the Fourth Crusade, the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos made a secret deal with Saladin to delay the Crusaders in exchange for the safety of the empire because he knew that he couldn’t trust the Western Crusaders and his actions were justified as the Latins did eventually turn against the Byzantines. A greek Byzantine…

‘Crusade’ is a non-medieval Franco-Spanish hybrid that has been considered synonymous to the pursuit of a good cause. The Crusades were a series of on and off religious wars fought between the years from 1096 to 1487 under the authority of various Popes. The Crusades were basically fought for the recovery of the Holy Land. They were ordered by Pope Urban II in 1095, and within months the first Europeans had arrived in the Middle East to rid the Holy Land of Muslims. One story particularly…

The Christian Crusades of the middle ages are often discussed in regards to the decisions of the people in charge, such as Pope Urban or Saladin. However, the outcome of the crusades could not have been accomplished without the involvement of the citizens. In the late 11th century, a group of people came forward seeking to reform the church. They called their movement the Gregorian Reform. The reformers wanted to address various aspects of conduct among the clergy, such as maintaining duties and…