The Story of the Crusades

The Crusades are a bloody war, and the Church believes that this is sacred and necessary to save the knights' souls. Crusade was a very controversial controversy in the Catholic church and past hierarchies. War was brought to the church from the allies of Rome, and they had a tense relationship with them. A place to seek aid for Muslim Turks. The church commanded the act to be holy and justified. People under the thumb's thumb are not opposed to the massacres convinced by their beloved God.

In fact, this is not the first time Muslims have talked about the Crusade. In the Muslim public imagination of today, Crusader attacks the Muslim world, tens of thousands of innocent people before Muslims can carry out effective jihad campaign to expel them It is memorized as a massacred Christian savage person who slaughtered. They are also seen as medieval ancestors of contemporary Western colonialists and imperialists. What was missing from the contemporary story conceptualized by Europeans from the 18th century to the 19th century, for example Joseph-François Michaud's Histoire des Croisades (the first volume published in 1812) is not like a crusader's modern scholar Fanatic people, they have a good relationship with Muslims

In fact, sources of medieval Muslims talk about various stories about the Crusade. No doubt they talked about countless battles, but they also have countless political and military alliances between Muslims and the Crusaders, systematic sharing of sacred space, commercial transactions, scientific As well as intellectual exchanges. Muslim historian and historian Ibn Vasil (who died in 1298) spent two years in South Italy while fulfilling his diplomatic mission, during which he published a book on logic dedicated to the emperor I have written. Hohenstaufen

The use of a simplified, misleading Crusader's story (ie, they are mainly Western, Christian, and defensive correspondence to Middle Eastern Christian lands) is not a strict contemporary phenomenon. In fact, it popularized in the colonial era and was reborn again in the early 20th century. In both cases, and in our current climate, in order to advance our own political reasons, rather than accurately representing the Crusaders, the fictitious similarity of the crusade and our own confrontation More important.

The conflict in Jerusalem dates back thousands of years including the Bible era, the Roman Empire and the Crusaders, but the present conflict is a clear 20th century story rooted in colonialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism. The New York Times invited several experts to guide readers to an important moment of the last century. "The paradox is that Zionism has shrunk down from Jerusalem, especially the Old Town," said Annon Ramon, senior fellow at the Jerusalem Policy Research Institute. "Firstly Jerusalem is regarded as a representative of expatriates, and secondly Christian and Islamic sacred sites are considered complications and it is impossible to establish a Jewish state with Jerusalem as the capital . "