Crusades: Why did the Muslims and Christians want the Holy Land?

Question

I have two questions:
1) Why did the Muslims want the Holy Land?
2) Why did the Christians want the Holy Land?
The Crusades started over that, but why did each religion want it?

Please, no answers that are not appropriate, no "Blah, they're both dumb" and stuff like that, it's a serious question and I want a serious answer, NO OPINIONS.

Thank you (:

Answer 1

Well
at the time of the crusades - the Muslims lived there.
And the Christians didn't like the place of Jesus' birth to be ruled by people of another religion.

Answer 2

The Crusades Holy Land

Answer 3

The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the sacred "Holy Land" from Muslim rule and were originally launched in response to a call from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuk Turks into Anatolia.

The term is also used to describe contemporaneous and subsequent campaigns conducted through to the 16th century in territories outside, the Levant[1] usually against pagans, those considered by the Catholic Church to be heretics, and peoples under the ban of excommunication[2] for a mixture of religious, economic, and political reasons.[3] Rivalries among both Christian and Muslim powers led also to alliances between religious factions against their opponents, such as the Christian alliance with the Sultanate of Rum during the Fifth Crusade.

Answer 4

That land is Holy to both groups.

Go here and read about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land

Some of these answers are killing me.

Jerusalem has been the holiest city in Judaism and the spiritual homeland of the Jewish people since the 10th century BCE (that's BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN) and 10 CENTURIES BEFORE MUHAMMED CAME ON THE SCENE. Jews have studied and personalized the struggle by King David to capture Jerusalem and his desire to build the Jewish temple there. Many of King David's yearnings about Jerusalem have been adapted into popular prayers and songs.

The core reason why Jews view the land as holy is due to the special status that the Hebrew Bible gives it with regard to Jewish religious observance, the fact that Jerusalem was the site of the Temple, and most of all, the fact that the Hebrew Bible refers to it as a divine gift.

Answer 5

Muslims wanted Jerusalem as it held a place called Dome Rock . Here, they believed, Muhammad was taken on a sacred Night Journey from earth to heaven so Allah could teach him the secrets of prayer.

Christians on the other hand were taught that Jerusalem was a location of some of Jesus s most renowned preachings. In addition to his Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected in locations in and around the city.

The city was religiously significant for both religions which is why they both wanted possession of it.

Answer 6

The muslims wanted the holy land because they thought they deserved to hold any land they could take, just like now. The christians went to the holy land because the muslims were murdering christians and jews there, and tearing up christian shrines.

Answer 7

When Muslims invaded Palestine, they were not after "Holy Land." [In Islam, lands are not "holy..]" Over many centuries, a large majority of Christians and Jews [mostly Samaritans] who lived there converted to Islam. The Christian Europe saw that and eventually found an excuse to start the war, hoping to limit the growth of Islam into Europe. It was the same old, "If we don't fight them over there, we will have have to fight them over here."

There are other reasons why Jerusalem is dear to many Muslims:

1. According to Islamic teachings, angel Gabriel first took Prophet Muhammad [actually his spirit] to Jerusalem and then to high heavens in what is called the "mi'raj.' [On his return, Prophet Muhammad described the environs of Jerusalem in great detail which conformed with what other people who had actually visited remembered].

2. Jerusalem was the first 'qibla' of Muslims. In other words, that's the direction that Muslims faced when praying.

3. Muslims consider all Jewish prophets as 'their' prophets. They reject the racial Jewish view that all prophets were "Jews" and belong only to Jews.

Answer 8

Muslims wanted it because they believed Mohammed, the Prophet flew over the Middle East on horse in some time. Not sure how thats connected to Jerusalem but, yea.

Christians wanted it because it was where Jesus was buried i believe.

All religion back then.

Answer 9

Both Muslims and Christians need to reborn to the same world.Just like Christian,after the Judgement Day,most of the Christian will need to live in the new earth that is the holy land.Only God chosen one will go to heaven.But not to worry ,christian did not need to reserve my place for me.

Answer 10

1. Who knows? but they took it.
2. The Christians did not want the holy land, they just want it open again. The Muslims took control of it and closed the borders not allowing Christians access to it.