The Western's viewpoint during the Crusades
In order to narrow down the topic of this paper, the Muslim's viewpoint during the time of the crusades will be discussed. To best explain the Muslim's viewpoint, the first thing that needs to be explained is the crusades themselves. According to Microsoft's Encarta, the crusades are described as "a series of wars by Western European Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims". Microsoft's Encarta also describes the crusades as "an expression of militant Christianity and European expansion. They combined religious interests with worldly and military enterprises. The Crusades strongly affected the imagination and aspirations of people at the time, and to this day they are among the most famous chapters of medieval history". In 1095 AD Pope Urban made a great speech at Clermont in southern France, where he urged the people to take up weapons and go fight to free Jerusalem from the rule of the Muslims or Fatmids as they......
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