Saladin and the Capture of Jerusalem Saladin stands out in Western accounts of the Middle Ages because his beliefs and actions reflected supposedly Christian characteristics: honesty‚ piety‚ magnanimity‚ and chivalry. Unlike many Muslim rulers‚ he was not cruel to his subordinates; Saladin believed deeply in the Koranic standard that all men are equal before the law. He set a high moral tone; for example‚ he distributed war proceeds carefully to help maintain discipline in the ranks. As an administrator
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Word Count: 1‚622 Ayyubid and Mamluk Jerusalem The core idea of God/sacred argued by Armstrong in Jerusalem: One City‚ Three Faiths is the idea of a sort of transcendence into something greater than just who we are as people. The exact meanings of sacred and holiness can vary throughout a culture over a period of time with the main idea remaining the same. During the period of Mamluk reign in Jerusalem‚ the city’s holiness had become more spiritual to the Muslims than ever before. As Christians
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The Kingdom of Heaven The plot of this movie can be very well defined as a romantic quest for what is right and just in the world at that time. The film starts off in the early 12th century with a blacksmith called Balian of Ibelin (who is actually an artificier‚ or military engineer) that has just lost his wife to suicide and is given the chance to go to the Holy Land to seek forgiveness for her sin by his long lost father Godfrey of Ibelin. This becomes his secondary goal upon arriving in Jerusalem
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Griffin Coach Williams World History February 9‚ 2015 The fall of Jerusalem in 1187 was one of the biggest events in the history of the Crusades. It was the end of the second crusade and gave up Jerusalem to the Muslims for the first time and the Crusaders never got it back. The siege of Jerusalem in 1187 lasted from September 20 to October 2 in 1187. Balian‚ a blacksmith from Ibelin‚ the son of Godfrey was the leader of Jerusalem at this time. The leader of the Muslims‚ Saladin had tried to negotiate
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Kingdom of Heaven: History vs. Hollywood The Crusades were a series of military campaigns encouraged by the church and pope to capture the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from Muslim hold. They were carried out during the 11th through the 13th centuries. There were a series of at least 6 crusades‚ some of which were directed at other European countries rather than Muslim countries. Kingdom of Heaven is a movie that deals with the 12th century crusaders. The movie takes place between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades
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Battle of Hattin 1187 Islam in Europe 3258 Professor Aitana Guia Submitted by: Sunaina Mannan 209 334 574 York University To account for the many factors that gave birth to the fall of Jerusalem in 1187‚ one must consider many interrelated and yet parallel factors that shaped The Battle of Hattin; as this was a historic battle for both the Turks and Crusaders. Respectively it justified Saladin’s struggle to unify his people under his leadership
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Levant (632–661)‚ ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos‚ who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians
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and position in society or for adventure. Concordat of Worms The First Crusade and Second Crusade Pope Urban II launched the first Crusades (He called on Christians to drive the Turks out of Anatolia and recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule) The Crusaders captured Jerusalem and massacred its Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. They established a Latin
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Balian of Ibelin The movie Kingdom of Heaven was focused on the Crusades fighting against Ayyubid that lead to the Battle of Hattin. The character that would be focus on is Balian of Ibelin. Balian is the main character in Kingdom of Heaven. His character joined the Crusades and fight against the Ayyubid for the Holy Land. The things that would be explored are how the character Balian was portrayed in the movie and then compare him to who he is in reality. The way this will be research is to go
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control of Jerusalem. However‚ the Pope did not control the Sixth Crusade and there were no great battles during this Crusade as the Muslims and Christians sat down and negotiated‚ rather than fighting each other. Eventually‚ the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was successful in negotiating and reaching a compromise with the Muslims‚ which resulted in the Christians once again controlling Jerusalem and other sites in the Holy Land. Consequently‚ the Sixth Crusade succeeded in reclaiming the Kingdom of Jerusalem
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