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When Templars Protected a Muslim in Jerusalem
In the heart of the Crusades, one Muslim warrior found friendship and protection in the most unlikely of places: the Templars' mosque in Jerusalem. This video recounts the extraordinary memoirs of ...
Re "Blame the Crusades," editorial, May 14: Whatever else you may want to think about the Crusades, remember this: Jerusalem and the area around the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea are not ...
The Crac des Chevaliers withstood a siege by the Muslim warrior Saladin during the Crusades nearly a thousand years ago, but the citadel has become a casualty of Syria's 3-year-old conflict.
The Crusades: A wound that has lasted 900 years The director Ridley Scott has been attacked by Christians and Muslims over his new film, 'Kingdom of Heaven', which premiered last night.
That stereotype relies upon a yet broader myth, an idea of the Crusades as religious wars waged by Europeans upon Muslims who had robbed the Holy Land, pitting white warriors against brown—then ...
In January this year, at a courthouse in Wichita, Kansas, three members of a right-wing militia group were sentenced to a combined total of 81 years in jail for plotting the mass murder of Muslims ...
Far from being wars of aggression, the Crusades were a belated military response of Christian Europe to over three centuries of Muslim aggression against Christian lands, the systemic mistreatment ...
While the Crusades gave rise to some of history's most legendary figures, such as the Islamic warrior Saladin, the English King Richard I, and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, ...
Last week the professor began a two-part series marking the beginnings of the Crusades, which were launched on Nov. 27, 1095, by Pope Urban II in response to political problems within Europe as wel… ...