al-Sulamī was also a grammarian who taught in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. His Kitāb al-Jihād (Book of Jihād) published in ...

The First Crusade A noble mission to free the holy land, or a gigantic expedition of plunder and murder? Some 900 years ago, 10,000 Christians answered the pope's call and set off for Jerusalem.

The First Crusade (1095-1099) – the massive expedition that marched across Europe and the Middle East to capture Jerusalem – underlines some of the difficulties surrounding this toxic assessment.

The crusade would be launched the following year and saw a brutal military victory in the city of Jerusalem in July of 1099. ... The more immediate causes of the First Crusade were in the east, ...

The First Crusade by European Christian armies aganist the Muslims climaxed during this week in the year 1099 with the taking of Jerusalem. Newsletters Reader Rewards ...

Exactly 920 years after Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders, archaeologists say they've found the first on-the-ground evidence to back up a key twist in the account of their victory.

The taking of Jerusalem appeared inconceivable, and yet in 1097 - on foot - that's what the Crusaders achieved. Professor Chris Andrew poses the quite plausible hypothesis that the First Crusade ...

The cross first appeared in the years before Pope Blessed Urban II called for the First Crusade (1096-1099) to set off to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control.