President Clinton is not alone in thinking that the Muslim world is still brooding over the crimes of the Crusaders. It is commonly thought\u2014even by Muslims\u2014that the effects and memory of that trauma have been with the Islamic world since it was first inflicted in the eleventh century. As Riley-Smith explains, however, the Muslim memory of the Crusades is of very recent vintage. Carole Hillenbrand first uncovered this fact in her groundbreaking book The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. The truth is that medieval Muslims came to realize that the Crusades were religious but had little interest in them. When, in 1291, Muslim armies removed the last vestiges of the Crusader Kingdom from Palestine, the Crusades largely dropped out of Muslim memory.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In Europe, however, the Crusades were a well-remembered formative episode. Europeans, who had bound the Crusades to imperialism, brought the story to the Middle East during the nineteenth century and reintroduced it to the Muslims. Stripping the Crusades of their original purpose, they portrayed the Crusades as Europe\u2019s first colonial venture\u2014the first attempt of the West to bring civilization to the backward Muslim East.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Hat tip to someone on Twitter: \u00a0I followed a link last night, left the browser open, and have no idea any longer who it was that linked to this.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s a good article with historical context on the Crusades, referencing a book which I fear I won\u2019t be able to find at my local library, \u201cInventing the Crusades.\u201d \u00a0In brief: \u00a0the Crusaders were not imperialists, and the legend that the Islamic world is still scarred by them is just that, legend. \u00a0Two key paragraphs: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crusades"],"yoast_head":"\n
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