![]() ![]() By 1060 Christians were not only nibbling at the edges of the Islamic world, but were actually gaining territory in Sicily and Spain. (I use “Franks” or “Frankish” to refer to western Christians.) For them, the Crusades didn’t begin in Clermont with Pope Urban’s 1095 speech, as most historians say, but rather decades earlier. They recognize the events we call the Crusades today simply as another wave of Frankish aggression on the Muslim world. ![]() Paul Cobb: Chronologically, Muslim sources differ from the Christians because they don’t recognize the Crusades. ![]() How the US Civil War Inspired Women to Enter Nursingĭo Muslim perspectives match Western ones in terms of chronology and geography? ![]()
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