The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, by Amin Maalouf

According to Amin Maalouf, "It is clear that the Arab east still considers the West to be a natural enemy, for any enemy, any hostile action (whether political, military or oil based) is just a legal revenge There is no doubt that the division between the two worlds can be traced back to the Crusades, and the Arabs even feel deeply as rape act today "(Amin Maalouf). When rethinking the Crusaders through the eyes of the Arabs, this sentence is always the most powerful work of Marouf's work.

Amin Maalouf's "The Arabid Through Arab Arab Eyes" introduces the crusaders who Westerners do not think about to Western readers and students studying history. Eurocentricism is a powerful influence that greatly shaped the writing of history, which has been accepted (at least by default) by many scholars all over the world. However, in this article, another view on the Crusaders' "facts", a contemporary Arab chronicle provides us with an unusually valuable view of Christian Western Europe and the Islamic Middle East confrontation I understand.

Amin Maaloof's "Cross of the Arab Eyes" is exactly the same as Saladin. Written in the prosperous Arab nationalism of the 1980s, his work is different from that of Saladin, a personality worship built around him in the world of Aladdin. In short, the history of Third Crusade and its ultimate winner was bound by many flaws. Mainly Arab and Western historians, the most important images are victory, military force and the Order. Each party claims to be a winner from modern history to modern times. Although there was no unexpected observation, the most surprising thing in the history of the Third Crusade was the distortion of the images of the two men in the past two years, now creating the personality worship that exists around them It is a method.

Popular concepts describe the Crusaders as Christian attacks against foreign cultures. Although this is an important catalyst for the Crusader's declaration, it is not actually an Arab's catalyst for the Crusade. Through the Arabic Chronicle, Maruhu told the view that the main factor that enabled the establishment of the Crusaders was the political competition between the Serbuk and the impotent caliph of the Abbasid dynasty that could not rule the ruler . Please fight between. The main factor of the Crusaders' final expulsion was the victory of Saladin, which brought the Crusaders very few lands and few people. Mamluk's rule also allowed this deportation around 1250.