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- The Crusades: an Arab Perspective - Shock: The First Crusade and the Conquest of Jerusalem (Episode 1)
The Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part documentary series telling the dramatic story of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope Urban II in 1099, to its recapture by Salah ad-Din (also known as Saladin), Richard the Lionheart's efforts to regain the city, and the end of the holy wars in 1291. In part one, we explore the history of the First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem.
The Crusades are the epitome of "holy war". Yet the roots of this 200-year conflict lay not just in religion, but also in the economic condition of medieval Europe.
"Around the time of the Crusades, Europe experienced several droughts which made people lose faith in everything," says Antoine Domit, history professor at the Lebanese University.
A struggle between church and state was taking place in Europe: Who would rule over the people of Europe, the pope or the king?
After centuries of European domination, largely through the armies of imperial Rome, the Mediterranean basin had fallen firmly under Muslim control. So the Muslims surrounded Europe, from Spain in the west to the eastern Mediterranean in the east.
"For Europeans, the east is 'A Thousand and One Nights'. It represents wealth, beautiful clothing, young concubines, thriving public life, songs and culture," says Elias al-Kattar, history professor at the Lebanese University.
While the Muslim east lived in prosperity, Europe had slipped into relative poverty and conflict.
"Medieval western society was a feudal society, which meant that you had the aristocracy in charge of a large amount of people that had no land possessions," says Jan Vandeburie, of the School of History, University of Kent.
Ishaaq Abaid, history professor at Ain Shams University, explains that "only one percent of people who had the titles of 'count', 'duke' or 'baron', owned all the agricultural lands. Ninety-nine percent of the European population were called serfs and worked on these lands."
Most Europeans in the 11th century lived in poverty and were struggling to survive, while war and conflict among knights were part of everyday life.
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after reading the comments...... nothing has really changed in the past 1000 years
Truly
I just wanted to discuss history ! Why did it had to turn like that in a mili-second ?
Amen do you know why becues this war never end becues evel ageinsd good becues god right Satan and every time some problem like before was Qaida now Isis later something else
Because people still can't read hahaha
We will fight them tell jesus come amen
To the people in the commentary section:
Relax, this is just history. Something that happens more then 900 years ago. The second world War happened happened just 70 years ago, and people got over it. Countries that fought endlessly, are allies now. So let's just take a breath.
Byzantines asked for help against the Turks. Didn't say anything about the Holy Land. That was all the western europeans.
Byzantines asked for help against the Turks. Didn't say anything about the Holy Land. That was all the western europeans.
Red/white erm actually the effect of WW2 are still in effect in the middle east
I have a question for you K Faruq.
Do you think that apostasy should be a punishable offence?
FlamingBullet There is no accurate depiction of the crusades they all have biases and downplay the atrocities commited by one side.
i watched this documentary several times to remember myself when we are in division as we are now , we will be humiliated.
Not arab. The Muslim fighters who fought the crusaders were mostly Turkic, Kurdish. Even Salahudin was Kurdish not arab.
G Ks thats interesting
Interestingly, a lot of arab lords fought with the first crusaders precisely because they wanted to diminish turkish and Abassid influence over their lands.
What does that have to do with an Arab perspective in the video??!!
G Ks oh yeah?! Fighting in the Arab lands without any Arab right?
arabs were in the infantries of every middle eastern armies and even in cavalries
For those interested in the subject I recommend Amin Maalouf's "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes" published in 1984. Excellent read. This documentary tends to generalize a bit, esp. regarding Western society during the middle ages.
Appreciate the suggestion
I'm 45 yrs and came to Islam when I was 19 after my neighbour and friend constantly gave me dawa growing up.
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Congratulations
Christianity is the real religion✝️
@Texas Iboa christianity is the real religion ✝️ repent
only weak people rely on fairy tales to overcome their misery, hope you get well soon and build up some self confidence....
thanks for this documentary, there are so many sources that give western perspectives but very few shed any light at all on Islamic and Arabic perspectives unfortunately.
Ashish yadav Stfu infidel! Deus Vult!
@@kysike666 ALLAH AKBAR TAKBIR ALLAH AKBAR
Yaah ,absolutely right
“The crusades as seen by the Arabs” by Amin Malouf is an excellent, and reasonably balanced view
Don't you need your husband's permission to speak? Shutup
I know in my heart I can trust the Qatari regime to tell me exactly what happened.
LOL :D dude
whether you believe al jazzera or not we all know the crusaders lost
Binary-Technique And Americans and Russians are taking chances to screw middle east, soon China will also join for gang bang middle east
Yeah. We sure are losing a lot right now, aren't we?
***** Been waiting for that for what... 1400 years? Gotta be soon right? I mean, the current projects are going so well. Islam has killed more muslims than anything else, snap out of your delusion plz.
Love this version. From the Arab perspective, I'm a Christian but always hearing watched western side.
lol The biggest "Crusaders" ( arab colonialists) calling others "Crusaders" !! For those who know history of how arabs became muslim & how they invaded N africa & Mideast lands, this ongoing propaganda videos about scary western crusaders is like the Joke of all centuries !! :) Not many people arent even aware that the arabs were the first slavetraders... way before the west, even sold captured slaves to the west. They carried on the trade even after the west had abolished slavery...
@@researchdesignz I agree man: transsaharan slave trade- still ongoing too just look at Libya.
Read about Umar entering Jerusalem contrast that with crusaders. You keep saying Arab. Arabs are an ancient civilization constantly in conflict islsm unified Arabia
@@NC-dk4mh it started in libya right after gaddafi was killed. guess who killed gaddafi? :)
@@researchdesignz Bro are you blind you didn't see what European colonialists made to the world Africa Asia the Americans Oceania
When are we gonna get Jihad: A European Perspective?
its USA WHO CREATED 99% of Jihad and their parties and organizations
What you mean, we got a taste of Jihad before the Crusades for centuries. That is what enabled the Crusades.
look at the map of Europe at the start of 1st Crusade
Tomorrow We Live Because you have no religion to encourage to go Fight
Lol, Salman. People have been killing each other over religion ever since there have BEEN organized religions. Only the names change.
Amazing documentary, the best one I have ever seen about the crusades! Thanks for sharing it here on TH-cam.
Most people in the comments seem to think that, Different perspective = Propaganda, that's the importance of seeing things from different point of views, you build a better picture
I have read the book crusades through arab eyes from Amin Maalouf, this is based on the writings of arabs at that time and they claimed that the crusaders had a military advantage (unlike what one of the arab speaking experts is saying) namely the armed knights/horses were unknown to them and that's why they could not stop them initially, it was something like a metal wall thundering over them
There were horses in the Middle East too dude lol
Middle eastern horses were better. In fact, heavily armored cavalry was invented in the east. Because special horses needed to be bread to carry such weight (people in Central Asia called the Masagaetae first bred these horses)...right around the time Alexander conquered Central Asia as well. This very heavy cavalry was adopted by the Greek kingdoms.
The Byzantines (who were basically Greek) copied it and called it cataphacts. Then the Normans copied the Byzantines. Then the rest of Europe copied the Normans (who were fighting as mercenaries all over Europe).
The First Crusade was done mostly by the Normans. They had just defeated a huge Christian army kinda led by the Pope. They had just almost conquered the Byzantine Empire.
They had just conquered England, Sicily and Southern Italy.
They had just faught off the Bulgarians (guys who fought like the mongols)...which is why they had experience against the horse archers of the Seljuk Turks (the real target of the first crusade).
But, because the Byzantine empire forced the Normans to swear to hand over all former Byzantine territory they took from the Seljuk Turks, the Normans decided to stop conquering Seljuk lands and go for lands they could keep.
Out of the blue, on a random tangent, they turned south and attacked the Fatimids and took Jerusalem (who were helping against the Seljuk Turks lol, the Seljuk was a common enemy of both).
No one expected this random attack...because it was never the plan.
Wow, Al-Jazeera has come along way in the past decade... what a wonderful series.
And then almost 100 years later our beloved Sallahudin al Ayyubi R. conquered Jerusalem
Israel is only 70 yrs old
And then colonization time 😂
Spoiler
@@baldwiniv6689 did you forget ottoman and andlus spain😂
@@harriskhan8668 and we won again and again because god is with us while allah is inexistent look at your history and present , you just live in middle east but europeans are controling the lands , resources and industry in your country , modern day colonialism..
Another great documentary, thank god someone stepped up to do the History Channel's job.
'Member when you came home and History actually had good HISTORICAL docos and not Ice Road Truckers or some other such nonsense? Those were the good days.
@@Immashift Ice Road Truckers isn’t that bad compared to other HC programming (E.g Ancient Aliens and Supernatural nonsense).
Interesting to get another perspective, however this glosses over the raids comitted against peaceful Christian pilgrims by the Seljuks. Fortunately the crusades stopped islamic encroachment to europe, for some time atleast...
Not to mention, even before then, from the Umayyads in Hispanola, Aghlabid in Sicilia, and the numerous other attempts all over the Mediterranean.
Mohamed Mo territory they conquered from Christians
Mohamed Mo and how did the Fatimid Caliphate get the land
musti mon What kool aid are You drinking? It's a historical fact that Seljuk and other bandits in the Middle East atacked pilgrims since the pilgrims Would often carry relics, and spices, and other material of value. Jerusalem is a holy city for christians too You know.
Mohamed Mo So Europeans are justified for not wanting to take in Mena people today since we are at war with ISIL? The reasoning faulters - christians on the pilgrimage to Jerusalem was not looking to cause harm of violence, and the early islamic dynasties saw them as a source of reveneu from taxation among other things. And the Word byzantine is a later construction, use the proper Word - The Eastern Roman Empire
atleast they had the decency of clearly stating that its a Arab perspective, while the western documentaries show there side as the only side. The British even hide there colonial exploitation of India to students and only a few students who do ph.d study about colonial exploitation.
I am sure you are an illiterate, even these things are taught in Primary schools. At times those you call your own scholars are a laughing stock!
@@shieldbossman4859 talk to an average Brit and they'll tell you how benevolent the colonisation was. They may abhor it being implemented now but they'll condone almost everything that happened in the past.
@@nitishsaxena1372 Talk to an average westerner and they will tell you what you call simply "colonization" is actually called imperialism/colonialism (yes, you should use proper terminology) and it had benefits and drawbacks like everything in history and how it is up to you to decide whether the benefits and drawbacks to the colonizers and the native populations was worth it. personally, I side with imperialism but I also hold no sympathy for native populations. They will also tell you that they do not "condone" what happened in the past but how it happened and there is no reason to dwell on it.
@@IncoherentSchizo I don't think you really contradicted me. In fact, you just proved what i wanted to say if you're from the West.
@@nitishsaxena1372 Here is the catch, I am not from the west. Congratulations, you have proven you have less brain cells than I originally thought. Also, for future reference, know that just saying I proved something is not a real argument for your point, it is just a replacement for one.
My favorite time period of history. Looking forward to part 2.
The golden age was the best period.
Every night before you go to sleep, do you mutter that wish to sleep? Hahaha.
@@quilliamattari2772
The time of Rightly Guided Caliphs was the best period, better than Golden Age.
Exactly what I have been waiting for all these years....
Alot of history experts in the comment section 🍻
Yeah, it's not like North Africa and most of the Middle East used to be Christian with large Jewish communities and that Afghanistan used to be Buddhist and Pakistan used to be Hindu.
All just a bunch of Islamophobic meanies.
@@libertatemadvocatus1797
Indeed
@@libertatemadvocatus1797 Indeed
The comments should be fun to read
Idiots battling idiots over the same god ....nothing's changed in a millenium
Being a deist, I don't know what to think of the comment section. Just sad.
@Roham Pasha: Well said.
@Thomas Ashraf you are one of the hateful people in the comment section.
full of civilized and cool headed comments.
Europe went through two droughts, so the Pope ordered random lords to gather their forces and go travel half a world and conquer a desert. Solid documentary. Dropped after 1 minute.
this one is for the history books.
the modern idea that "the crusades were unprovoked wars of conquest" is demonstrably false. As Ibrahim points out, the crusades were a very belated response to 400 years of Muslim conquest. Two-thirds of the Christian world had already been devoured by Muslim armies before Pope Urban II made his appeal to the knights of Christendom. Many regions which are now solidly Muslim were once Christian. All of the twenty-two nations which now comprise the "Arab world" in the Middle East and North Africa were Christian. The same is true of Turkey, whose capital, Constantinople, was once the center of Christendom.
Agree. The Holy Wars in this area kind of started in 638 AD when the brand new religion invaded the the much older Christian Eastern Roman Empire. The crusades weren't unique just another war within a war to fight back and defend Europe against very ambitious invaders.
Urban was also moved by the inability of Christians to pilgrimage safely to the holy land. Tragic that modern concepts of assessing risk in military endeavor were not available to dissuade the Pope.
The worst crusade, to a Christian, was the last one which sacked Constantinople. I never knew about it until recently and it’s such a story of such evil, it affects my Christian faith.
Never underestimate the human ability to be stupid.
Always interesting to read the mighty comments warriors giving us their 21 century enlightened analysis about matters that happened centuries past.
The world has always been about religion, empires and conquests.
I respectfully disagree. I believe it was always about money, power of the elite and aristocratic society using religion as there mask.
I like the fact that you include relevant facts that obviously absent from Kings and Generals. We all serve the very same God.
Congratulations on sharing the perspectives of both eastern and western scholars and added a fresh view to this very relevant occurrence. It’s also interesting to note that religion was merely a secondary cause for invasion and the primary reason was and always will be economic.
Lol...uummmm
This crusades war is just a waste of life, money and time. The only people that benefit are the aristocrats, the ruling elite. It still happen today and we never take any lesson from it.
Finally someone with an open mind.
@@jeppsam5971 the lesson we take from it is that your comforts are a result of the crusaders fighting off islamic invasions and is the reason why you and your family aren't under sharia law... So best to keep quiet and read history
@Nicci Moodley so according to your logic atheism was also the primary cause for stalins invasion?
They do clearly state in the title that its from an Arab Perspective. Looking forward to the sequel and the arrival of
Saladin who along with Pelagius of Asturrias and Charles Martel is one of my favorite Historical figures.
Charles martel is a myth
@@kamelleon9131 no he’s not, it’s Pelagius who is the myth
Those are some weird uncommon historical figures lol.
That's almost like if you're forced to find some kind of figure from the early medieval France and Spain...and these are the only options that are available within those parameters.
Not Saladin, of course. He's cool.
wow this is the kind of analysis that I am looking for about the medieval Europe. Finally I found the right documentary!
How about you do this next? The Muslim conquests: a Christians perspective
Thank you for this splendid documentary. I love how Europeans legitimize invading foreign countries and spreading Christianity as moral while simultaneously think their religion is all about turning the other cheek. That's rich
A very nice and comprehensive documentary about Crusade.
I would like to see the complete film of it, where this video is made of.
Could you please give me the name of the film. And also a link to the film, if this film is somewhere on the internet.
Thanks for you efforts.
great video, shows how important Sunni and Shia should co-operate and unite instead of dividing along sectarian lines
Very interesting documentary, I've been to Akko and other sites where the crusades took place, so this is meaningful to me
Btw, salahudin wasnt arab, he was a kurd. Persians and kurds also had a huge part fighting against the crusaders
Also the abbasids and most of the thinkers and scientists of the classical age were persians
Who cares ? Do you think Salahudin would have told you he was a kurd? Or any arab told you he was an arab ? They all would have told you that they were brothers under one god.
Sam Most of the muslim thinkers are the Turks from Central Asia who speak Persian
Sam Most of the Persian muslim thinkers are the Turks from Central Asia who speak Persian. Iraq and Syria were the center of scientists and thinkers from all regions of the world
Yes we know that ..thank u Persian to remind us
SubhanAllah - God told us about this in the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh, the predictions he made were miracles
Mohammad killed pregnant women Asma bint Marwan
Shias betrayed Muslim in the crussades back then and in the ones now. Sad
Some muslims are Fools while others are not.
FlamingBullet yes
Stridar bullshit Iran is sending there Shia crussaders to suni Muslim Land commiting genocide
musti mon Yeah Hezbollah.
Sectarian bullshit. Same attitude was the reason behind fall of Muslims.
Wow, I've never heard this side to the equation. I don't know which stories are true or are not but it is good to hear several perspective. Within there will be truths in each story. There's their truth, our truth, then there's what really happened. Smh
AJ does not represent "An Arab Perspective". It merely represents some interest in the middle east. Stop spreading lies.
Salty christians
XYGamer yes it does idiot
XYGamer thanks!
those bastards,,u know what they do to my countries girls.....MARRY THEM USE THEM AND DUMP THEM OFF
I fully agree with you
I did not understand how a war could be glorified by adding word " Holy" in the name of religion.
@Alvin David The childs of CIA you mean?
@Alvin David Before you say, research who created al qaeda, taliban to defeat USSR...
@Alvin David As far as christian power goes, time is never same my dear. If its yours today, it will be ours tomorrow. Salahuddin Ayubi, Ottoman Empire are few of great muslim rule examples from the history.
@Alvin David Indeed so much so eternal that country like Pakistan fought it alone for two years in afghanistan and pushed it towards its humiliating defeat, its ego of super power, and tarnished its undefeated history.
Power of christians have always been eternal so was the reason why hero Salahuddin Ayubi had always been a symbol of terrified fear among the christians of the time.
@Alvin David You better not read about that guy, you'll have to take laxatives for a better day.
This documentary is not just from an Arab perspective it is historically factual. The truth is the truth regardless of whether or not it may not agree with individual sensibility.
This is a fun documentary for those of us who grew up learning one side of the Crusades. It was mainly to give an outlet to the feudal micro-armies under fief lords that existed solely to fight each other. The pope cannily realized he could divert their energies away from Christendom. This is much better than the BBC series that attempts the same thing, BTW.
Being an Arab perspective, it's also missing the fact that Jerusalem and Middle East were taken by Arabs with force as well, some centuries earlier
But surely not brutal and bloodthirsty as crusader..muslim army kill only army but not crusaders who masacre 10 thousand people of jerusalem..
Even better after the earliest muslim army defeated the byzantine at egypt and palestin..those region still christian majority for 600 years after that..we conquer but we not force people to convert..land can take by force or winning war but Islam religion are spread by awareness..
What??? Your deflection and misinformation is pointless. This documentary is meant to share views. Even before Christianity existed there was a diverse number of groups living throughout the Levantine. This area has a rich cultural history dating back to BC era. Despite what you may have heard people always existed in this area. Also where is the outcry for the Palestinian Christians who suffer on a daily basis under Zionist rule. Where is your outrage for your follow Christians who was murdered by a Israeli sniper. Where is your outrage when Christians attempt to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem, and the Zionist bully and radical Jews throw things at the people walking to the Holy Specular church. Or maybe this doesn’t matter because they are ‘brown’ Christian not ‘white’ Christians? This seems to be the truth since brown Christians were also massacred during the crusades by the European white Christians. Please read more and connect to Christian’s still living in Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Ramallah.
@@Shook1917 You are missing the point: if a land is taken from you by force, it's not so strange you try to retake it by force
@@fabrizioriva1281 exactly
I just started. This sounds amazing!
I love how history always boils down to, I'll tell you how these people are evil but not how the people I support are. People were dicks, that's why we learn from what they did rather than trying to repeat it.
*"Kill them all. God will know his own"*
-Both sides
Yup. Both religions claim to be peaceful. And both where spread by the sword and have an insane amount of blood on their hands.
Religion always was and always will be a handful tool and catalyst to influence gullible people to wage war.
Nothing so sad as people killing other people in the name of superstition
@Oana Cristina N-ai inteles nimic din crestinism...doar Noul Testament e biblia adevarata a crestinilor (adeptii lui Cristos), pentru ca reprezinta "noua lege" , de pace si iubire, total diferita de cea din Torah, Vechiul Testament, "ochi pentru ochi si dinte pentru dinte". Vechiul Testament a fost utilizat de biserica catolica pentru a justifica crimele comise in numele religiei, din evul mediu.
@Oana Cristina I must have imagined that verse of "the people of the book who disbelieve (the final message of Mohammed) shall abide in eternal hellfire"
*Verse 96:8*
And don't act like the verse doesn't point towards Mohammeds "Final Message", because it does,...
It clearly says
@Oana Cristina lol shut up
I am a Catholic, God is with us... AMEN
Why?
😁😂 😁😂
a response to all those who said that this video was biased.
its called "the crusades from Arab perspective".
so...
you've got to understand that this is "Arab perspective".
Or some do not get that the Crusades were SUPER CRUEL. and the term spread by the sword is more accurate to be attached with them then Islam.
Biggest and bitter truth is that,
Europe was in Dark Ages at that time
But Middle East was Prosperous at that time sowing seeds for renaissance.
That is a half truth. Why do you think Europe was in a dark age? Could it have been the shutdown of mediterranean trade due to Muslim incursion, invasion, and piracy?
dodivol ط
You cannot be prosperous and also be starting a renaissance since that would mean you would be going backwards. Renaissance means "rebirth" and it is a historical term so be sure that you know what it means before you use it. Also while Europe was in a dark age, the islamic world was no better. The Islamic world, like the video even said, was divided and infighting was constant. the Islamic world had the same issues of fighting, division and even the fact that slavery was propping up mercantilism in the area. Europe was the same thing with serfdom being, theoretically, a good system slightly above slavery. Although as we know that is not exactly how it was.
@Maarij Hassan I agree it was a badly put together documentary but al jazeera overall is heavily biased and, understandably so. Frankly, there are no documentaries of the crusades that are not biased in one way or another since all of the accounts are from either christian or muslim scribes, each glorifying or falsifying details. The most unbiased accounts are from Venetian/Genoan merchants and even those accounts are still somewhat biased. You will either receive a documentary made with accounts leaning one way or the other. Although I must give props for putting "an Arab perspective" in the title since it is rarely done.
I find it amusing how small of a budget was assigned for costumes and decorations in this. That's usually the first thing that's being focused on in western documentaries.
@Rick Vis The knights in the first crusade didn't look like Templars like they do here though. The Templars didn't exist at that time.
As a Palestinian, I must say... I love the crusades.
o boi you do
not Palestiny but the zionist invader u are
Why?
I have a critic around 28:20, regarding the Siege of Nicaea. It was not Crusaders that snuck inside the city by boat. The Byzantines made a deal with the Turk defenders to surrender to them rather than the Crusaders, who were actually miffed when they realised what had happened because they wanted the city. To what Prof. Mahmoud Imran said, they were allowed in precisely because they weren't Crusaders. "True to the oath they had sworn to the emperor, the city of Nicaea was returned to the Byzantines" isn't quite accurate, because they didn't have the chance to hold or break the oath, as it was taken directly by the emperor's men. The Byzantines and Latins (as the Western Christians were known) often clashed, and were not at all a united front against the East.
"Arab Historians of the Crusades" is a great anthology of primary source material written by Arab and other Muslim chroniclers at the time. Look it up it is invaluable because so many of the sources corroborate the claims of tthe Byzantine Christians, and of the popes, and the crusaders: that Christians were persecuted, and persecuted often.
Strange that modern west criticise Muslim for Jihad , forgetting their long crusade against Muslims since 9th century , still continued with different names and renewed spirit.
True
here's my input on this. As someone majoring in history people tend to get the origins of the crusades wrong. Here is how the first Crusade started. The Byzantine Emperor sent an appeal for help to push back the Seljuk Turks after the massive defeat at Manzikert. The Emperor was expecting a small crack force of europe's best which he could build an army around. What he didn't expect was the Pope who was attempting to assert Papal authority after the investiture crisis and call for a religious crusade. It didn't help that the Seljuks were harassing Christian pilgrims. In fact the Emperor was displeased by how the crusaders tended to raid his lands and was further insulted that he lands reconquered weren't returned to his rule. So in a nutshell, the Crusades were a big mess with neither side being right while the Byzantines, it was a simple call for aid that got out of hand
i need an aljazeera documentary on the early church history
By making this film at this difficult time you, Al Jazeera,
1. acknowledge that there IS such thing as clash of civilizations.
2. clearly demonstrate which side you're on
3. contribute to racial and religious tensions in the Western countries.
OK, we're bad. You're winning. Just relax. Europe is yours already.
Mark Mywords No the film is so relevant in our very time when the "civilized" Europeans are trying to dismiss the effect of their savagery in Muslim Arab lands even at the very moment. Actually crusade is still happening in the Middle East sans obvious religious under tone but we can't deny there is especially when the then President Bush Jr. of USA claimed that his invasion of Iraq had God's blessing!
Its good the Christians fought back! Look what Islam did to the Indian subcontinent! Massacres after massacres, following forced conversions. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia was never a Islamic region but now look at it!
*Comment Reader* ignorant...islam did not spread in southeast asia by the eye of the sword...im from southeast...malaysia
mike wallice Wow you're calling ME ignorant?? lmao, why dont you read some proven history and explain to me why there isnt many temples left in Pakistan and Afghanistan?
*Comment Reader* who says so? There are still many temples in Pakistan and Afghanistan and yet they are all rotting because no one is taking care of them not because the Muslims do not want to but the two countries are poor that taking care of temples is the very last of their concerns. They cannot even take care of Muslim sites, and you want them to take care of those Hindu or Buddhist sites? Common sense anyone?
Meanwhile Mongols : what is this clowns doing...
Not really, Genghis Khan's father wasn't even born when the 1st Crusade came to the Holy Lands. Back then they were warring tribes of the steppe who fought each other.
Faran Qamar That is True
Later mongols be like : what have my people done in the past? Now Islam conquered half of us not by sword but by its teaching
Only westerners are the clowns, because that is their profession
i have read a book of amin maalouf， named the crusades through Arab eyes
I watched a documentary on European middle ages recently. Interesting to see this side of the story!
They destroyed the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem and the Nativity in Bethlehem and every church in the Holy Land. Because crazy Hakim hated the sound of church bells. They prevented the rebuilding and pilgrimages. That's the reason. What would they do now if you destroyed Mecca, Medina, Najaf and Karbala?
@@adrianalainez8499 i think u little child
Can you share me the video from the european side? Thank you.
@@Mohamed_Abdi-YTA I think ur an Islamist..
@@patricksrensen7952 i think your a puppet
Jonathan Philips, professor of history, University of London, is very good. A lot of the actors look more like accountants than medieval warriors.
True.
Still calling jihad today....
The Jihad shall flourish till the end times.
*****
You've been reading apocryphal texts. And no, I've got an IQ of 130.
Salahuddin was Kurdish not Arab. This was defenetly from an Arab prospective he's not going to say the truth the Crusades was a response to Muslim aggression.
everybody missed the main point: religous fanatism is the real problem, not islam, christian, or judaism.
The comments section reminds me of TH-cam Crusades
Yeah, pathetic.
Its good the Christians fought back! Look what Islam did to the Indian subcontinent! Massacres after massacres, following forced conversions. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia was never a Islamic region but now look at it!
The first crusade was a great triumph of christendom. United under one cause and against all odds they reclaimed Jerusalem.
Without the first crusade and the reconquista of spain europe would be under islamic rule.
It was an age of legends.
the Crusader failed becuase it was an invasion of Foriegn power
Foreign people to another land
the crusader state were clinging to coastal cities and settlements . they didn't venture inland very similar to modern israeli state
the population of these land were hostile to crusaders
as they are now hostile to israel
it was an invasion similar to israel today
To bad it will happen to muslims everywhere by your logic, mohammed invaded mecca without any proper reason. He is as bad as Hitler in invading foreign land.
edgar brattstorm.mecca is his home town he was born and raised their. lol
But they threw him out because he preached a false religion, a religion that came back with fire and steel.
Currently reading the book “Saladin” by John man (british),came to have a visual taste.
Nice docu by AlJazerra. Surely all these academics are more knowledgeable than all these dislikers and hateful commentators...
People complain about historical bias, like its something you can escape. All history has inescapable historical bias. You can only hear all sides and decide for yourself. I'm glad to see this from a different perspective.
once Syria,Iraq,Turkey,Lebanon etc was cradle of Christian civilization.... it was destroyed by Muhammad and his tugs destroyed it so there is good reason for crusade..
Iraq wasn't Christian and wasn't Cradle of Christian Civilization
Only the Assyrians were Christians the Babylonians didn't take Religion Seriously
Syria and Egypt maybe .
I would be interested in seeing the Mohammedan expansion from the perspective of the Zoroastrians. But then we can't really ask them since their story has been redacted and destroyed by Islamists. I guess efforts at genocide and cultural oppression have their benefits.
Kenneth Slayor I know you are shocked by the truth! But sorry We can't help this is the truth from the both (western and eastern) reasons!
Noah Big boy This is how you justify the spread of Islam? Get an Indian perspective of the Muslim Invasions. How did a religion spread from the Arabian Peninsula to Spain in one century? Please, spare us the nonsense.
@@petert1692 Islam spread in india through trade
@@valencian123 lmao sure
As a british man this is so refreshing to finally find a documentary on the arab perspective. One thing though that i think they get wrong - They say the priests of western europe at this time would not have known how to read or write - this is definitely not true. Even your average peasant would have had sufficient reading skills for most basic things during this time.
It was true in many cases. Like how political offices are often filled through nepotism and corruption, similar things could happen in the church as well.
That fact alone shows how absurd the claims in the documentary are. A priest had to read his breviary as just one example. It is not a historical take but a mythical Arab fantasy. Yes some things are true but far too embellished like a corrupt oral history instead of scholarly.
@@ADawoodKiwi It was not the standard though. Of course its possible that there were anomalies. But its false, as even most of the local populace and peasants would have been able to read simple things.
I dont agree when the Documentary says The conflict between Islam vs Christianity it was not at all in that way i would rather say it was a muslim vs Christian conflict
What's the difference? After all religion was main driving force.
To the Christians had lost 2/3 of the Christian world and the crusades were an defensive effort. If it was not for the crusades Europe may have been Islamic.
you mean when Europe finally fought back the MUSLIMADES after 400 years and 500 wars against Europe?!
Is that what you mean?
The description of the siege of Nicea was the final blow. Neither Anna Comnena, nor Gesta Francorum describe this event like that. I always thought that it was well known fact that Roman emperor Alexios I managed to sway the muslim garrison into surrendering while crusaders held the city under siege. They even didn’t mention the fact that he returned Turkish sultan his family from Nicea basically for free, without any ransom. Maybe I don’t know some kind of Turkish source material that described the siege this way? Until than I wouldn’t recommend this documentary if you want to learn what is known of the First Crusade from the sources
What ? Arabs do not play when it comes to records/history. The problem is alot of it is not translated so unless you can read arabic you are out of luck. You think Europeans were the only ones keeping tabs on stuff like this. Come on lol.
good one....important to be done...thanks for aljazeera
I am just starting the series but I hope they don't forget to mention that christianity was on the constant defensive since the muslims invaded the roman empire. P.S. 15 minutes into the episode I realised that the documentary is describing exactly the problems that modern islamic countries are facing today ... overpopulation, weak economic systems and religious fanatism. I guess history is repeating itself.
I'm so thankful that religion or "Faith" was never forced upon me. I've never witnessed more hate, deceit, corruption, greed and destruction than that of those who claim to "Believe." I guess I'll never understand why people spend their whole lives looking forward to dying that they never truly live. To each his own, for your sake, I hope you're not disappointed with your choice or "Duty" to follow, I've definitely not been disappointed by my freedom of choice to lead myself! Peace to all!
You cant ignore religion just because you met or seen the bad ones because if there is bad ones there is good ones also,people are not a reliable source.
If you want to judge a religion you go to the source "the book" and I specifically advise you the quran, I know there is so much prejudice against it but you need to see it yourself to truly judge fairly, there is a reason it is the fastest growing religion, people saw something special in it.
Please read it with an open mind because if I'm wrong about the afterlife then that's that there is nothing but if you are wrong then your fate is in the hands of god. Please just read.
@@batssama Fanatical religion is poison. Besides, GOD DOES NOT EXIST, IT HAS NEVER EXISTED AND IT WILL NEVER EXIST, so get over it!
It was a clash of civilizations, there was no good guys and bad guys, both sides were brutal but come on Al Jazeera, the Arabs were expanding and not in a friendly way, they conquer Spain and didn´t give it back easily. The truth is that Islam was a threat for Europe and the sametime they brought new knowledge that expanded all over the European territory. Thanks to the Arabs Europe develop technologically and thanks to the Arabs they probably freak out and decided to conquer other lands before they conquer them, they fallowed the Igor phylosopohy: "Do unto others... Before they do it unto me!". End of the story.
conquers was something natural all empireat the time expand their territory roman empire... their was not modern countries like today BOTH SIDES WERE BRUTAL and the SAMETIMEHAVE THEIR GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIME
As you take a look at the Crusades, would you like to take a look at the Armenian Genocide, wich is framed in the Ottoman Empire Kingdom. In this way we'll have a more accurate perspective of midle East religious issues. Thanks.
As a Pole I need to say: Poland is ready for the fight. We always stood firm, defending our faith. May Jesus bless Poland!
Dee Kay Poland is the best catholic country after Vatican City..many people there are still religious..thumbs up for the polish..I feel envy to you guys who live in catholic country..
@@rahellissactia3271 What a stupid comment answered by an even more fanatical one.
3:09 LOL LOOK AT WHERE THEY LOCATED PARIS AND ROME
So?
Paria is shown way off where it really is, so is Rome.
It's probably a historically accurate map, one that was geographically off.
the comment section shows how the crusades still are relevant today, and a sensitive subject. very interesting to see different perspectives about it
The Crusades are just the failure of Europeans to retake what they lost. Constantinople is another reminder of what was lost in Europe as well. Europeans have for the most part been divided against themselves. Just look at what we are doing to ourselves again in Ukraine.
great video thanks.make
You know its interesting how everyone seems to claim a biased prospective on a documentary literally giving the prospective of the other side (i.e. how they witnessed the events), but, not only this, they go further claiming the documentary writers lie, when in reality, the people speaking and telling the story are academics from the best universities in the UK and when it comes to the Arab prospective, again academics from some of the most prestigious Arab universities. Do you really think an academic is going to lie - clearly you do not know how academia works if you think an academic can lie and have his career carry on or his views even be listened to.
Academics lie all the time and get away with it
In my experience, "academics" are mostly self-serving, biased, sophomaniacs. They are also routinely wrong in their visions of social grandeur.
I must say, I would expect Al Jazeera to turn off comments when putting propaganda of this nature out.
Very interesting documentary and very good production. Hope you will make similar ones on the Abbasids and Ummayads
Not just from an Arab perspective, It's mine as well.
It's not so difficult to be critical of the Crusades, and the first one was probably the bloodiest of all.
a very good documentary and an insight into the crusades. i was always interested in knowing about crusades; i am very thankful to aljazeera for producing such enlightning films.
Lousy propaganda and blatant lies, the crusades was an act of love and self defense. Saracen was attacking, killing and robbing Christian pilgrims.
Turks protected Islam against the Crusaders
Why don't you guys make documentary The Great Ahmed guray who fought with Portuguese and Ethiopian high land...Ahmed guray was the one who protected the kaba when Portugal soldiers attack the hollyland
Bcoz he was somali tht is why they don't make documentary
The Jihad, A Catholic Perspective! PLEASE
It amazes me how many people want to continue fighting battles from a thousand years ago. Everyone invaded everyone in the past, wars went on and on, one was ascendant and then another, everyone has a grievance and if the intent is to cast blame then everyone is guilty.
The past has made us who we are, but only a fool is ruled by it.
love n respect for Saleh udin frm Pakistan he is not only Arab world hero but he is the hero of whole Muslim ummah ... as a Muslim I can't describe in words that all Arab Muslim heros r hero of whole Muslim ummah
..as our destiny is same ..our Allah is one ..our last prophet Muhammad pbuh is one ...our Quran our books of hdees every thing is our common wealth
How about: The muslims conquests - A christian perspective.
"The dramatic story of the muslim conquests, seen through the eyes of chirstianity which lost half it's territory and population".
How about that al-Jizzeera ? are you gojng to make a documentary about that too ?
I’m atheist but I support you guys over Christianity,
Thanks for your support brother...
Peace be upon you...
Deus Vult !!!
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen
@Daniel Goodman don't blow yourself up now.
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