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Why the Most Powerful Muslim Rulers in the Middle East Considered the Crusaders a Minor Annoyance
October 8, 2026
Scott Rank (0:05)
Scott here with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast. German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm traveled to Damascus in 1898 in order to push his imperial ambitions in the Middle East. He wanted to show Germany as a champion of the Islamic world against British and French power and project power in the entire…
What this all shows is that it's really only in the last hundred years that the Crusades were all that important in the Muslim world. If you look at Muslim chroniclers from the Middle Ages up to the early modern period, they don't write about it all that much. That's because of the grand scheme of things it wasn't…
Nicholas Morton (2:54)
It's great to be on the show, Scott. And in the past, I've studied the Crusades in various aspects. But in this one, I particularly want to look at the Crusades in the round, how they fit into the broader regional picture. Because if you go to, I don't know, if you meet someone for the first time and they say, what…
And that's something I really want to challenge with this book, because there's a lot of other things going on, things that actually weren't going on in isolation, but changed the nature of the Crusades and shaped the way that they evolved. So that's a big tent view of the Crusades of making the controversial…
Scott Rank (3:56)
Yeah, I did a class years ago in Istanbul about the history of Christian-Muslim relations, and one lecture was about the Crusades themselves, but then the entire second half was about how the Crusades were remembered. And I mean the point that on the European side of things, since the Crusades, it was one of the…
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