The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Pope Urban II called for a holy war or crusade against Muslim Turks. “Your Brethren who live in the (Middle) East are in Urgent need of your help… For, as most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania,” the Pope is calling for the followers of the church to unite and fight against a common enemy (DBQ 1-13). The people in turn, joined forces and fought in Holy war or the first Crusade. This crusade also unified the Byzantine empire under

I learned a lot of facts about Judaism that I had previously been ignorant to. I had no idea that we (Christians & Jews) maintained the same bible (The Old Testament) but that we interpreted certain events differently, such as Adam and Eve. “In Judaism, each and every human being is free to choose good or evil because each person stands before God in the same relationship that Adam and Eve did” (Esposito 77). I was unaware that Judaism did not believe in “original sin.” I had no knowledge of the

EUH2032 21 April 2016 Jews: The Forever Faithful Most people today immediately think about the holocaust when they put the words suffering and Jews together. However, there are layers of history buried beneath the holocaust that is unseen by the common eye. Jews have been persecuted for what seems like the beginning of time for their beliefs. It is ironic that today’s most popular religions were so hostile towards their own origins. The holocaust is an add-on to truly confirm people’s ignorance. The

during the Crusades of the 12th century, and is basically about the life of Balian, a French blacksmith, who defends the Kingdom of Jerusalem against the Muslims and reclaims the city from the Christians. In this story, I could travel back in time to experience life during the era of the Crusades and learn more about the perspective of duty between the Christians and Muslims. To better understand the Kingdom of Heaven, it is important to know what the Crusades were. The

to that principle in the case of the crusades. In the case of the First Crrusade many people did just that, volunteered knowing that many of them would die defending their religious beliefs. In the days of the Byzantine Empire, a person’s faith or religion determined how they would live their life. It is the nature of people to fight for what they believe in; therefore, defending ones religion is not objective to that principle as in the First Crusade. A crusade is characterized as any of the military

one of conflict. Power struggles are widespread and unique in context, but these struggles are not special in the presence or complexity of the self-versus-other conflict within them. One of the strongest examples for this assertion is the First Crusades. At face value, any observer can immediately take notice of the separation between those of Christian faith and those of Islamic faith. If additional diligence in research is provided, any one of these observers begins to find the endlessly deeper

At the close of the XIth century, the Crusades launched by Europe's kingdoms, headed by the papacy, had reached the height of their zeal. The people overwhelmingly came out in support of them, pledging their swords to the capture of the holy city of Jerusalem along with the entirety of the Holy Land. This enthusiasm, after all, was not without precedent; although it had failed in its ultimate objective of reclaiming Jerusalem from Arab forces, the Third Crusade succeeded in a multitude of other areas

Ibn al-Haytham developed “analytic geometry and the earliest general formula for infinitesimal and integral calculus” (Islamic Golden Age). Symbolic algebra which is used today in computer sciences was developed by Abū al-Hasan Ibn Alī al-Qalasādī. “Arabs picked up two concepts essential to the evolution of mathematics: the place value digit and zero. Both of these were vital to being able to do much more complex calculations than the old system of using letters to represent numbers” (Butler). Although

what the west knows as "The Crusades" Where perceptions and opinions were formed of the others adversary. Through written accounts and word of mouth, especially once the fighting broke out, the people back home formed in various ways. Especially how they interacted with each other around their known world. Those interactions between Muslims and Christians during the era of the Crusades became defined by misinterpretations of holy texts, sensationalism through stories and “eye witness accounts," and in

began a social political crusade in the name of “saving Muslim women” from “deliberate human cruelty.” In literature, they were depicted as stubborn, unfaithful, fragile, whose actions were based on the fear of the male figure. In everyday life, women are faced with gender based restrictions, debasement, and seclusion from men. Some of these claims are undoubtedly accurate, however, what most overlook is that these are perceptions, and renditions through western – foreign eyes. While these intentions