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Background to the holy wars and the First Crusade’s conquest of Jerusalem, a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims.
From: The Crusades: An Arab Perspective
Liberation: Acre and the End of the Crusades
From the Third Crusade to the siege of Acre: How the crusader presence in the Holy Land was brought to an end.
28 Dec 2016
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This part of ‘The Crusades: An Arab Perspective’ explores the birth of the Muslim revival in the face of the Crusades.
We explore how Salah Ed-Din unified the Muslim states and recaptured the holy city of Jerusalem from the crusaders.
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