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re: What are you reading?
Posted on 6/18/22 at 7:22 pm to biglego
Posted on 6/18/22 at 7:22 pm to biglego
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As far as the Muslims’ viewpoint, overall it seems the Muslims had a healthy respect for the fighting prowess of the Franks, and generally hated the Franks and considered jihad against the Franks to be utmost importance and a high honor. Everything that modern academia has come to hate about the Crusaders can be said about Muslims of the same era.
I’m reminded of the crusades by Thomas asbridge, at the end , he goes in to talk about how almost 1,000 years later , it’s still Islam vs Christianity . Crazy to think about it but as rust cohle says “time is a flat circle”
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Posted on 6/18/22 at 7:27 pm to Lawyered
Yes I read the Asbridge book also. Love this time period.
For the Muslims, from this book, the conflict with Christianity was unapologetically a religious holy war. And it did not start with Urban’s sermon in Clermont as it does for westerners. That sermon, perhaps understandably, is not moment at all for Muslims. They viewed the holy war as beginning before the First Crusade, in Sicily and Spain.
For the Muslims, from this book, the conflict with Christianity was unapologetically a religious holy war. And it did not start with Urban’s sermon in Clermont as it does for westerners. That sermon, perhaps understandably, is not moment at all for Muslims. They viewed the holy war as beginning before the First Crusade, in Sicily and Spain.
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