The crusades are a dark and terrible time for the Catholic and Islam religions. Both saw the crusades as a type of holy wars, both were fighting for their God. There is much information on this topic maybe too much. I had to narrow it down quite a bit. The best source that could be found and that was the most help full was God of Battles by Peter Partner. Most of the research I did was in this book.
The crusades where a type of holy wars. Holy wars have been fought for centuries going as far back as the Egyptians and David. The Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III inspired his army to fight because they are fighting for the god Amun-Re. David on the other hand was fighting because God called him to which in turn inspired his army. Holy wars have been fought for many reasons most of which have been to win back sacred lands. The crusades are prime examples of this especially, the people’s crusade and the first crusade.
To understand the crusades you must understand why the Christians want to take back the holy lands. According to web this is because the Muslims lead by Muhammad took them by force during the 7 th century. According to Muslim tradition Muhammad a Mecca (a town South of Medina) was kicked out because he was preaching his allusions so he fled to a near by oasis which was medina was brought together a group of followers and began to raid caravans than were from Mecca or where on there way to Mecca. Soon after he had enough men to win Mecca.
He did so and began to take over the whole Middle East. In doing so he took over Jewish and Christians lands and killed or converted many of the others. This is why the Muslims have control of the holy lands which the crusades were to win back. The first crusade not called the first but the peoples crusades was lead by Peter the Hermit and fought my many poor French people this is also called the poor crusade.
The Essay on Muhammad Bio God Mecca People
Muhammad is by far one of the most influential men in the history of the religious world. Even today his teachings are still worldly known and his views on dying for a place in heaven result in our terrorist bombings, suicide, and even the world trade center disaster. To understand the fundamentals and the reasons why Islam is a violent religion you have to divert back to the teachings of Muhammad ...
Pope Urban II asked for people of the church to win back the holy lands for the good of the Christa in church. The first to react to the popes message was a small band.
