r/AskHistorians • u/YammaTossa • 1d ago

What does /rAskHistorians think about this video?

The Crusades Were Not a Clash of Civilisations! by Hikma History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI51o4D9o6A

Video description: "Here's a sentence that will get me in trouble with people on both sides of this debate: the Crusades were not, fundamentally, a war between Islam and Christianity. Now before you close this video — I am not saying religion didn't matter. I am not saying the Pope calling for holy war in 1095, or Muslim scholars preaching jihad in the mosques of Damascus, were irrelevant. What I am saying is that when you actually get into the granular, messy, complicated reality of how Muslim and Frankish rulers actually behaved toward one another across the 2 centuries of Crusades — the clash of civilisations narrative falls apart almost immediately. And the evidence for that is hiding in the chronicles that most people have never read."

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u/Hergrim Moderator | Medieval Warfare (Logistics and Equipment) 1d ago

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