What effect did the Crusades have on the Moslem-Christian relationship?

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Answer 1

It is widely believed that the Crusades led to widespread distrust between Moslems and Christians, and for the most part that is true. However, the whole truth is a bit more complex.

There were places where Muslims and Christians worked well together. For example, the city of Toledo is Spain was one of the great ecumenical sites for the meeting of Jews, Muslims, and Christians that lasted for quite some time. In addition, medieval Christian philosophers like Thomas Aquinas were in debt to the Muslim world for Latin translations of Aristotle. Aquinas shows that gratitude often in quoting with favor Muslim philosophers such as Avicenna and Averoes.

Francis of Assisi went to the holy land in an attempt to make peace in the midst of the Crusades by trying to convert the Muslim leaders. Though he failed in that endeavor, he was treated well by his captors and showed favor to them in return.

The Muslim and Christian world has been apart for quite some time and there have been hostilities between the two even to this day. However, lots of places have promising bright spots. Iraq, before the U.S. invaded, was a great example of Muslims and Christians working together with mutual respect. There are some common ventures in other areas as well in the Holy Land and other places. Slowly, the Crusades are being forgotten and a new paradigm of cooperation is beginning to take place.

Answer 2

I suspect less than one might imagine.

Muhammad had already more or less told his followers the only good Christian was a dead one, so it's not like the Muslims really needed the Crusades to cement a notion they already believed.

People often blame Religion for wars and violence, but it's an extremely naive concept. Most animals, including humans, compete for territory and mechanisms, like Religion, that organize the inevitable conflict are somewhat arbitrary.

In the post Roman era, the 'Western' powers were being united by Christianity. The Middle East was being united by Islam. So while individual Christians & Muslims often got along during the chaotic Middle Ages, the Christian & Muslim empires were pepetually in conflict.

So while the Crusades are symbolicly important to Muslims as an example of the 'Evils of Christianity' there were plenty of other conflicts that would have sufficed had the Crusades not occured.

Because the West has, for the most part, rejected Theocracy and embraced Religious tolerence, the Crusades have little emotional resonance with most Westerners, who are frequently baffeled at the intense Mid Eastern reaction to what they regard as acient history.

Answer 3

Very little. Bear in mind that the crusades started at the end of the 11th century and ended in the 13th century.
Muslim invasions of europe had been going on for hundreds of years before the first crusade took part and the last one eneded at the gates of Vienna in the middle of the 17th century. The muslim world has spent far more time invading Europe and trying to convert Europeans to islam than the other way around.
The world's first recorded "crusade" was the spread of Islam at the point of the sword that saw most of the middle east, north Africa and parts of central asia converted to islam.

Answer 4

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What effect did the Spanish Inquisition have on the victims?

If you are really interested in the question and the subject I would Google, Pope Urban II and read a formal paper by a professor of history at Boise State. Origins are my past time and the almost unimaginable botch job that began the first crusade would be a major lesson taken from history

if………..we humans had even a remote chance to learn there from.

Of course, the handicap is…to actually learn from the mistakes in history…we would have to actually…read… history. Therein lays the rub.

Answer 5

i think the crusades affected the middle eastern-european relationship more than the muslim-christian relationship, the crusades were only religous for the crusaders who went gallantly riding to the middle east, happily attempting to lob off any head wearing a turban, this of course included jews and christians as well as muslims. when the crusaders sacked jerusalem in 1099 many innocent 'enemies' were killed many christian and jewish. the middle east lived in tolerance of it's many religous denominations for hundreds of years before and after the crusades

Answer 6

It is regarded in the Middle East in the same way the Jews regard the Nazi Holocaust