To the people in the commentary section: Relax, this is just history. Something that happens more then 900 years ago. The second world War happened happened just 70 years ago, and people got over it. Countries that fought endlessly, are allies now. So let's just take a breath.

@tomgjgj

7 жыл бұрын

Byzantines asked for help against the Turks. Didn't say anything about the Holy Land. That was all the western europeans.

@tomgjgj

7 жыл бұрын

Byzantines asked for help against the Turks. Didn't say anything about the Holy Land. That was all the western europeans.

@Rogue_Console

7 жыл бұрын

Red/white erm actually the effect of WW2 are still in effect in the middle east

@PhotoRealisticBeaver

7 жыл бұрын

I have a question for you K Faruq. Do you think that apostasy should be a punishable offence?

@zunair744

7 жыл бұрын

FlamingBullet There is no accurate depiction of the crusades they all have biases and downplay the atrocities commited by one side.

I know in my heart I can trust the Qatari regime to tell me exactly what happened.

@VahapCanUgurlu2617

7 жыл бұрын

LOL :D dude

@abdulazizhakbani7885

7 жыл бұрын

whether you believe al jazzera or not we all know the crusaders lost

@DevvratDubey21

7 жыл бұрын

Binary-Technique And Americans and Russians are taking chances to screw middle east, soon China will also join for gang bang middle east

@JMG_86

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. We sure are losing a lot right now, aren't we?

@Dystopikachu

7 жыл бұрын

***** Been waiting for that for what... 1400 years? Gotta be soon right? I mean, the current projects are going so well. Islam has killed more muslims than anything else, snap out of your delusion plz.

after reading the comments...... nothing has really changed in the past 1000 years

@Byzantine41

7 жыл бұрын

Truly

@TheFiresloth

7 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to discuss history ! Why did it had to turn like that in a mili-second ?

@RandN777

6 жыл бұрын

Amen do you know why becues this war never end becues evel ageinsd good becues god right Satan and every time some problem like before was Qaida now Isis later something else

@bballsharpshooter10

6 жыл бұрын

Because people still can't read hahaha

@naseer93100

6 жыл бұрын

We will fight them tell jesus come amen

Wow, Al-Jazeera has come along way in the past decade... what a wonderful series.

i watched this documentary several times to remember myself when we are in division as we are now , we will be humiliated.

Not arab. The Muslim fighters who fought the crusaders were mostly Turkic, Kurdish. Even Salahudin was Kurdish not arab.

@jacques8221

7 жыл бұрын

G Ks thats interesting

@TheFiresloth

7 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, a lot of arab lords fought with the first crusaders precisely because they wanted to diminish turkish and Abassid influence over their lands.

@legendray2008

7 жыл бұрын

What does that have to do with an Arab perspective in the video??!!

@thearabsword1

6 жыл бұрын

G Ks oh yeah?! Fighting in the Arab lands without any Arab right?

@vvaqarahmad3044

6 жыл бұрын

arabs were in the infantries of every middle eastern armies and even in cavalries

I'm 45 yrs and came to Islam when I was 19 after my neighbour and friend constantly gave me dawa growing up.

@d.m.hubble2591

3 жыл бұрын

@Tony 2 Toes 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣💀☠🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@earthynomad7160

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations

@roufeyel7866

3 жыл бұрын

Christianity is the real religion✝️

@roufeyel7866

3 жыл бұрын

@Texas Iboa christianity is the real religion ✝️ repent

@archerman1

3 жыл бұрын

only weak people rely on fairy tales to overcome their misery, hope you get well soon and build up some self confidence....

Love this version. From the Arab perspective, I'm a Christian but always hearing watched western side.

@researchdesignz

3 жыл бұрын

lol The biggest "Crusaders" ( arab colonialists) calling others "Crusaders" !! For those who know history of how arabs became muslim & how they invaded N africa & Mideast lands, this ongoing propaganda videos about scary western crusaders is like the Joke of all centuries !! :) Not many people arent even aware that the arabs were the first slavetraders... way before the west, even sold captured slaves to the west. They carried on the trade even after the west had abolished slavery...

@NC-dk4mh

3 жыл бұрын

@@researchdesignz I agree man: transsaharan slave trade- still ongoing too just look at Libya.

@farziran87m6

3 жыл бұрын

Read about Umar entering Jerusalem contrast that with crusaders. You keep saying Arab. Arabs are an ancient civilization constantly in conflict islsm unified Arabia

@NoName-go6oz

3 жыл бұрын

@@NC-dk4mh it started in libya right after gaddafi was killed. guess who killed gaddafi? :)

@ayassines5841

3 жыл бұрын

@@researchdesignz Bro are you blind you didn't see what European colonialists made to the world Africa Asia the Americans Oceania

thanks for this documentary, there are so many sources that give western perspectives but very few shed any light at all on Islamic and Arabic perspectives unfortunately.

@kysike666

3 жыл бұрын

Ashish yadav Stfu infidel! Deus Vult!

@likkz1326

3 жыл бұрын

@@kysike666 ALLAH AKBAR TAKBIR ALLAH AKBAR

@enthusiasm3229

3 жыл бұрын

Yaah ,absolutely right

@feastguy101

3 жыл бұрын

“The crusades as seen by the Arabs” by Amin Malouf is an excellent, and reasonably balanced view

@themalhama9129

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you need your husband's permission to speak? Shutup

When are we gonna get Jihad: A European Perspective?

@naju332

7 жыл бұрын

its USA WHO CREATED 99% of Jihad and their parties and organizations

@TheKres7787

7 жыл бұрын

What you mean, we got a taste of Jihad before the Crusades for centuries. That is what enabled the Crusades.

@TheKres7787

7 жыл бұрын

look at the map of Europe at the start of 1st Crusade

@salmanmohamed7368

7 жыл бұрын

Tomorrow We Live Because you have no religion to encourage to go Fight

@billwalkerable

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, Salman. People have been killing each other over religion ever since there have BEEN organized religions. Only the names change.

For those interested in the subject I recommend Amin Maalouf's "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes" published in 1984. Excellent read. This documentary tends to generalize a bit, esp. regarding Western society during the middle ages.

@Different28

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate the suggestion

atleast they had the decency of clearly stating that its a Arab perspective, while the western documentaries show there side as the only side. The British even hide there colonial exploitation of India to students and only a few students who do ph.d study about colonial exploitation.

@SuperFadaka

5 жыл бұрын

I am sure you are an illiterate, even these things are taught in Primary schools. At times those you call your own scholars are a laughing stock!

@nitishsaxena1372

5 жыл бұрын

@@shieldbossman4859 talk to an average Brit and they'll tell you how benevolent the colonisation was. They may abhor it being implemented now but they'll condone almost everything that happened in the past.

@IncoherentSchizo

5 жыл бұрын

@@nitishsaxena1372 Talk to an average westerner and they will tell you what you call simply "colonization" is actually called imperialism/colonialism (yes, you should use proper terminology) and it had benefits and drawbacks like everything in history and how it is up to you to decide whether the benefits and drawbacks to the colonizers and the native populations was worth it. personally, I side with imperialism but I also hold no sympathy for native populations. They will also tell you that they do not "condone" what happened in the past but how it happened and there is no reason to dwell on it.

@nitishsaxena1372

5 жыл бұрын

@@IncoherentSchizo I don't think you really contradicted me. In fact, you just proved what i wanted to say if you're from the West.

@IncoherentSchizo

5 жыл бұрын

@@nitishsaxena1372 Here is the catch, I am not from the west. Congratulations, you have proven you have less brain cells than I originally thought. Also, for future reference, know that just saying I proved something is not a real argument for your point, it is just a replacement for one.

Interesting to get another perspective, however this glosses over the raids comitted against peaceful Christian pilgrims by the Seljuks. Fortunately the crusades stopped islamic encroachment to europe, for some time atleast...

@reconquista4011

7 жыл бұрын

Not to mention, even before then, from the Umayyads in Hispanola, Aghlabid in Sicilia, and the numerous other attempts all over the Mediterranean.

@kingfedrick4698

7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed Mo territory they conquered from Christians

@kingfedrick4698

7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed Mo and how did the Fatimid Caliphate get the land

@andrewjackson7511

7 жыл бұрын

musti mon What kool aid are You drinking? It's a historical fact that Seljuk and other bandits in the Middle East atacked pilgrims since the pilgrims Would often carry relics, and spices, and other material of value. Jerusalem is a holy city for christians too You know.

@andrewjackson7511

7 жыл бұрын

Mohamed Mo So Europeans are justified for not wanting to take in Mena people today since we are at war with ISIL? The reasoning faulters - christians on the pilgrimage to Jerusalem was not looking to cause harm of violence, and the early islamic dynasties saw them as a source of reveneu from taxation among other things. And the Word byzantine is a later construction, use the proper Word - The Eastern Roman Empire

Shias betrayed Muslim in the crussades back then and in the ones now. Sad

@masterbaf

7 жыл бұрын

Some muslims are Fools while others are not.

@mustimon

7 жыл бұрын

FlamingBullet yes

@mustimon

7 жыл бұрын

Stridar bullshit Iran is sending there Shia crussaders to suni Muslim Land commiting genocide

@masterbaf

7 жыл бұрын

musti mon Yeah Hezbollah.

@MDUmairKh

7 жыл бұрын

Sectarian bullshit. Same attitude was the reason behind fall of Muslims.

Most people in the comments seem to think that, Different perspective = Propaganda, that's the importance of seeing things from different point of views, you build a better picture

Alot of history experts in the comment section 🍻

@libertatemadvocatus1797

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's not like North Africa and most of the Middle East used to be Christian with large Jewish communities and that Afghanistan used to be Buddhist and Pakistan used to be Hindu. All just a bunch of Islamophobic meanies.

@dropPlaydead

5 жыл бұрын

@@libertatemadvocatus1797 Indeed

@retrogamer2503

3 жыл бұрын

@@libertatemadvocatus1797 Indeed

The comments should be fun to read

@rohampasha9667

7 жыл бұрын

Idiots battling idiots over the same god ....nothing's changed in a millenium

@J0sh_395

7 жыл бұрын

Being a deist, I don't know what to think of the comment section. Just sad.

@MDUmairKh

7 жыл бұрын

@Roham Pasha: Well said.

@manfrodo2793

7 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Ashraf you are one of the hateful people in the comment section.

@KoeSeer

7 жыл бұрын

full of civilized and cool headed comments.

I have read the book crusades through arab eyes from Amin Maalouf, this is based on the writings of arabs at that time and they claimed that the crusaders had a military advantage (unlike what one of the arab speaking experts is saying) namely the armed knights/horses were unknown to them and that's why they could not stop them initially, it was something like a metal wall thundering over them

@jigglybandito9505

Жыл бұрын

There were horses in the Middle East too dude lol

@tylerdurden3722

Жыл бұрын

Middle eastern horses were better. In fact, heavily armored cavalry was invented in the east. Because special horses needed to be bread to carry such weight (people in Central Asia called the Masagaetae first bred these horses)...right around the time Alexander conquered Central Asia as well. This very heavy cavalry was adopted by the Greek kingdoms. The Byzantines (who were basically Greek) copied it and called it cataphacts. Then the Normans copied the Byzantines. Then the rest of Europe copied the Normans (who were fighting as mercenaries all over Europe). The First Crusade was done mostly by the Normans. They had just defeated a huge Christian army kinda led by the Pope. They had just almost conquered the Byzantine Empire. They had just conquered England, Sicily and Southern Italy. They had just faught off the Bulgarians (guys who fought like the mongols)...which is why they had experience against the horse archers of the Seljuk Turks (the real target of the first crusade). But, because the Byzantine empire forced the Normans to swear to hand over all former Byzantine territory they took from the Seljuk Turks, the Normans decided to stop conquering Seljuk lands and go for lands they could keep. Out of the blue, on a random tangent, they turned south and attacked the Fatimids and took Jerusalem (who were helping against the Seljuk Turks lol, the Seljuk was a common enemy of both). No one expected this random attack...because it was never the plan.

Congratulations on sharing the perspectives of both eastern and western scholars and added a fresh view to this very relevant occurrence. It’s also interesting to note that religion was merely a secondary cause for invasion and the primary reason was and always will be economic.

@themalhama9129

2 жыл бұрын

Lol...uummmm

@jeppsam5971

2 жыл бұрын

This crusades war is just a waste of life, money and time. The only people that benefit are the aristocrats, the ruling elite. It still happen today and we never take any lesson from it.

@abdullahahmad9300

2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone with an open mind.

@Tzimiskes3506

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeppsam5971 the lesson we take from it is that your comforts are a result of the crusaders fighting off islamic invasions and is the reason why you and your family aren't under sharia law... So best to keep quiet and read history

@Tzimiskes3506

2 жыл бұрын

@Nicci Moodley so according to your logic atheism was also the primary cause for stalins invasion?

And then almost 100 years later our beloved Sallahudin al Ayyubi R. conquered Jerusalem

@Real_Gigachaddi

3 жыл бұрын

Israel is only 70 yrs old

@baldwiniv6689

3 жыл бұрын

And then colonization time 😂

@Itzagundam

3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler

@harriskhan8668

3 жыл бұрын

@@baldwiniv6689 did you forget ottoman and andlus spain😂

@baldwiniv6689

3 жыл бұрын

@@harriskhan8668 and we won again and again because god is with us while allah is inexistent look at your history and present , you just live in middle east but europeans are controling the lands , resources and industry in your country , modern day colonialism..

Being an Arab perspective, it's also missing the fact that Jerusalem and Middle East were taken by Arabs with force as well, some centuries earlier

@zulimanismail1966

2 жыл бұрын

But surely not brutal and bloodthirsty as crusader..muslim army kill only army but not crusaders who masacre 10 thousand people of jerusalem..

@zulimanismail1966

2 жыл бұрын

Even better after the earliest muslim army defeated the byzantine at egypt and palestin..those region still christian majority for 600 years after that..we conquer but we not force people to convert..land can take by force or winning war but Islam religion are spread by awareness..

@Shook1917

2 жыл бұрын

What??? Your deflection and misinformation is pointless. This documentary is meant to share views. Even before Christianity existed there was a diverse number of groups living throughout the Levantine. This area has a rich cultural history dating back to BC era. Despite what you may have heard people always existed in this area. Also where is the outcry for the Palestinian Christians who suffer on a daily basis under Zionist rule. Where is your outrage for your follow Christians who was murdered by a Israeli sniper. Where is your outrage when Christians attempt to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem, and the Zionist bully and radical Jews throw things at the people walking to the Holy Specular church. Or maybe this doesn’t matter because they are ‘brown’ Christian not ‘white’ Christians? This seems to be the truth since brown Christians were also massacred during the crusades by the European white Christians. Please read more and connect to Christian’s still living in Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Ramallah.

@fabrizioriva1281

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Shook1917 You are missing the point: if a land is taken from you by force, it's not so strange you try to retake it by force

@comradespiderman29

Жыл бұрын

@@fabrizioriva1281 exactly

Very interesting documentary, I've been to Akko and other sites where the crusades took place, so this is meaningful to me

wow this is the kind of analysis that I am looking for about the medieval Europe. Finally I found the right documentary!

Amazing documentary, the best one I have ever seen about the crusades! Thanks for sharing it here on KZread.

Exactly what I have been waiting for all these years....

My favorite time period of history. Looking forward to part 2.

@quilliamattari2772

7 жыл бұрын

The golden age was the best period.

@quilliamattari2772

7 жыл бұрын

Every night before you go to sleep, do you mutter that wish to sleep? Hahaha.

@TheWaleedKhalid

2 жыл бұрын

@@quilliamattari2772 The time of Rightly Guided Caliphs was the best period, better than Golden Age.

Europe went through two droughts, so the Pope ordered random lords to gather their forces and go travel half a world and conquer a desert. Solid documentary. Dropped after 1 minute.

@checkcheck1579

4 жыл бұрын

this one is for the history books.

Another great documentary, thank god someone stepped up to do the History Channel's job.

@Immashift

2 жыл бұрын

'Member when you came home and History actually had good HISTORICAL docos and not Ice Road Truckers or some other such nonsense? Those were the good days.

@waynejohnson1786

2 жыл бұрын

@@Immashift Ice Road Truckers isn’t that bad compared to other HC programming (E.g Ancient Aliens and Supernatural nonsense).

By making this film at this difficult time you, Al Jazeera, 1. acknowledge that there IS such thing as clash of civilizations. 2. clearly demonstrate which side you're on 3. contribute to racial and religious tensions in the Western countries. OK, we're bad. You're winning. Just relax. Europe is yours already.

@latesukiyaki

7 жыл бұрын

Mark Mywords No the film is so relevant in our very time when the "civilized" Europeans are trying to dismiss the effect of their savagery in Muslim Arab lands even at the very moment. Actually crusade is still happening in the Middle East sans obvious religious under tone but we can't deny there is especially when the then President Bush Jr. of USA claimed that his invasion of Iraq had God's blessing!

@VeggieBond

7 жыл бұрын

Its good the Christians fought back! Look what Islam did to the Indian subcontinent! Massacres after massacres, following forced conversions. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia was never a Islamic region but now look at it!

@mikewallice2795

7 жыл бұрын

*Comment Reader* ignorant...islam did not spread in southeast asia by the eye of the sword...im from southeast...malaysia

@VeggieBond

7 жыл бұрын

mike wallice Wow you're calling ME ignorant?? lmao, why dont you read some proven history and explain to me why there isnt many temples left in Pakistan and Afghanistan?

@latesukiyaki

7 жыл бұрын

*Comment Reader* who says so? There are still many temples in Pakistan and Afghanistan and yet they are all rotting because no one is taking care of them not because the Muslims do not want to but the two countries are poor that taking care of temples is the very last of their concerns. They cannot even take care of Muslim sites, and you want them to take care of those Hindu or Buddhist sites? Common sense anyone?

Always interesting to read the mighty comments warriors giving us their 21 century enlightened analysis about matters that happened centuries past. The world has always been about religion, empires and conquests.

@Shook1917

2 жыл бұрын

I respectfully disagree. I believe it was always about money, power of the elite and aristocratic society using religion as there mask.

Thank you for this splendid documentary. I love how Europeans legitimize invading foreign countries and spreading Christianity as moral while simultaneously think their religion is all about turning the other cheek. That's rich

the modern idea that "the crusades were unprovoked wars of conquest" is demonstrably false. As Ibrahim points out, the crusades were a very belated response to 400 years of Muslim conquest. Two-thirds of the Christian world had already been devoured by Muslim armies before Pope Urban II made his appeal to the knights of Christendom. Many regions which are now solidly Muslim were once Christian. All of the twenty-two nations which now comprise the "Arab world" in the Middle East and North Africa were Christian. The same is true of Turkey, whose capital, Constantinople, was once the center of Christendom.

@black5f

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. The Holy Wars in this area kind of started in 638 AD when the brand new religion invaded the the much older Christian Eastern Roman Empire. The crusades weren't unique just another war within a war to fight back and defend Europe against very ambitious invaders.

How about you do this next? The Muslim conquests: a Christians perspective

it's so funny how most people comment on the crusades as if the little knowledge they have makes them a scholar.

@abdulrahmansaleh9546

7 жыл бұрын

What a troll

@jenniraisovna5698

6 жыл бұрын

Scholarship is also defined by other people...not much different in what we see today as credible world, is it?

Urban was also moved by the inability of Christians to pilgrimage safely to the holy land. Tragic that modern concepts of assessing risk in military endeavor were not available to dissuade the Pope. The worst crusade, to a Christian, was the last one which sacked Constantinople. I never knew about it until recently and it’s such a story of such evil, it affects my Christian faith.

@grahamt5924

Жыл бұрын

Never underestimate the human ability to be stupid.

A very nice and comprehensive documentary about Crusade. I would like to see the complete film of it, where this video is made of. Could you please give me the name of the film. And also a link to the film, if this film is somewhere on the internet. Thanks for you efforts.

They do clearly state in the title that its from an Arab Perspective. Looking forward to the sequel and the arrival of Saladin who along with Pelagius of Asturrias and Charles Martel is one of my favorite Historical figures.

@kamelleon9131

3 жыл бұрын

Charles martel is a myth

@feastguy101

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamelleon9131 no he’s not, it’s Pelagius who is the myth

@tylerdurden3722

Жыл бұрын

Those are some weird uncommon historical figures lol. That's almost like if you're forced to find some kind of figure from the early medieval France and Spain...and these are the only options that are available within those parameters. Not Saladin, of course. He's cool.

AJ does not represent "An Arab Perspective". It merely represents some interest in the middle east. Stop spreading lies.

@johnysalads207

7 жыл бұрын

Salty christians

@mustimon

7 жыл бұрын

XYGamer yes it does idiot

@damnedidwedo6543

7 жыл бұрын

XYGamer thanks!

@tarakvaakil8553

7 жыл бұрын

those bastards,,u know what they do to my countries girls.....MARRY THEM USE THEM AND DUMP THEM OFF

@DevvratDubey21

7 жыл бұрын

I fully agree with you

SubhanAllah - God told us about this in the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh, the predictions he made were miracles

@hunk9730

4 ай бұрын

Mohammad killed pregnant women Asma bint Marwan

Thank you for this very good.

i need an aljazeera documentary on the early church history

great video, shows how important Sunni and Shia should co-operate and unite instead of dividing along sectarian lines

I like the fact that you include relevant facts that obviously absent from Kings and Generals. We all serve the very same God.

Wow, I've never heard this side to the equation. I don't know which stories are true or are not but it is good to hear several perspective. Within there will be truths in each story. There's their truth, our truth, then there's what really happened. Smh

Strange that modern west criticise Muslim for Jihad , forgetting their long crusade against Muslims since 9th century , still continued with different names and renewed spirit.

@loveyouall9595

5 жыл бұрын

True

I did not understand how a war could be glorified by adding word " Holy" in the name of religion.

@adlbasit

3 жыл бұрын

@Alvin David The childs of CIA you mean?

@adlbasit

3 жыл бұрын

@Alvin David Before you say, research who created al qaeda, taliban to defeat USSR...

@adlbasit

3 жыл бұрын

@Alvin David As far as christian power goes, time is never same my dear. If its yours today, it will be ours tomorrow. Salahuddin Ayubi, Ottoman Empire are few of great muslim rule examples from the history.

@adlbasit

3 жыл бұрын

@Alvin David Indeed so much so eternal that country like Pakistan fought it alone for two years in afghanistan and pushed it towards its humiliating defeat, its ego of super power, and tarnished its undefeated history. Power of christians have always been eternal so was the reason why hero Salahuddin Ayubi had always been a symbol of terrified fear among the christians of the time.

@adlbasit

3 жыл бұрын

@Alvin David You better not read about that guy, you'll have to take laxatives for a better day.

I just started. This sounds amazing!

This is wonderful !!

Btw, salahudin wasnt arab, he was a kurd. Persians and kurds also had a huge part fighting against the crusaders

@Sam-gy3ok

7 жыл бұрын

Also the abbasids and most of the thinkers and scientists of the classical age were persians

@stryderhirio3333

6 жыл бұрын

Who cares ? Do you think Salahudin would have told you he was a kurd? Or any arab told you he was an arab ? They all would have told you that they were brothers under one god.

@ma111ma11

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Most of the muslim thinkers are the Turks from Central Asia who speak Persian

@ma111ma11

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Most of the Persian muslim thinkers are the Turks from Central Asia who speak Persian. Iraq and Syria were the center of scientists and thinkers from all regions of the world

@salahghamd2401

5 жыл бұрын

Yes we know that ..thank u Persian to remind us

BOTH SIDES DID THINGS THEY SHOUDLNT HAVE DONE. BOTH SIDES HAD THERE OWN JUSTIFICATION.... get over it

@ibrahimhassan6566

7 жыл бұрын

crusades never had justification

@dermotological4486

7 жыл бұрын

Neither did conquering the North Western American Continent, or the South either, come to think of it. To the Victor The Spoils? And THAT is what the Islam faith want and will get, the Victory and the Spoils, due to Daft, unthought through, non-history reading liberals in the US and Europe

@ibrahimhassan6566

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Barlow they didn't conquer north America ,they lived together with them for years but the Indians died due to disease

@zunair744

7 жыл бұрын

I thought this was america ! The genocide of Native Americans is one of the greatest genocides in history.....

@zunair744

7 жыл бұрын

iqbal sahibil you ever read a book.... diseases killed them but so did murder and rape

good one....important to be done...thanks for aljazeera

Very interesting documentary and very good production. Hope you will make similar ones on the Abbasids and Ummayads

Thank you for sharing some history here. I think there is great value in studying our collective histories. I also think that people then and people now are not so different. It seems to me that most of our current conflicts have similar roots - ignorance, fear, and mutual mistrust exploited by the power hungry on every side. Sometimes this is given a veneer of religious justification; sometimes it isn't. How much better would the world be if we all stopped hating one another? The elusive goal of world peace...

@MDUmairKh

7 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@chrisnorcross4652

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@hatesymbol8978

7 жыл бұрын

neeeeeeeeerrrrrd!!!

@Rath9765

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Norcross the world before and now is very different

@chrisnorcross4652

7 жыл бұрын

We've all come very far in some meaningful ways. but I think that we're not done yet. I mean that people around the world and sometimes even on other sides of the same town) can't always figure out how to get along with one another peacefully. But I'm hopeful, and I think we should keep trying.

the Crusader failed becuase it was an invasion of Foriegn power Foreign people to another land the crusader state were clinging to coastal cities and settlements . they didn't venture inland very similar to modern israeli state

@iahmed7753

7 жыл бұрын

the population of these land were hostile to crusaders as they are now hostile to israel

@raitelhaq1616

7 жыл бұрын

it was an invasion similar to israel today

@edgarbrattstrom8048

7 жыл бұрын

To bad it will happen to muslims everywhere by your logic, mohammed invaded mecca without any proper reason. He is as bad as Hitler in invading foreign land.

@kingofthesouth2593

7 жыл бұрын

edgar brattstorm.mecca is his home town he was born and raised their. lol

@edgarbrattstrom8048

7 жыл бұрын

But they threw him out because he preached a false religion, a religion that came back with fire and steel.

how do you find the music in this film? especially the song at 4:12?

I watched a documentary on European middle ages recently. Interesting to see this side of the story!

@adrianalainez8499

3 жыл бұрын

They destroyed the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem and the Nativity in Bethlehem and every church in the Holy Land. Because crazy Hakim hated the sound of church bells. They prevented the rebuilding and pilgrimages. That's the reason. What would they do now if you destroyed Mecca, Medina, Najaf and Karbala?

@Mohamed_Abdi-YTA

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrianalainez8499 i think u little child

@meutianadhilah6408

3 жыл бұрын

Can you share me the video from the european side? Thank you.

@patricksrensen7952

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mohamed_Abdi-YTA I think ur an Islamist..

@evanmysteryman3595

3 жыл бұрын

@@patricksrensen7952 i think your a puppet

I find it amusing how small of a budget was assigned for costumes and decorations in this. That's usually the first thing that's being focused on in western documentaries.

@frankart59

3 жыл бұрын

@Rick Vis The knights in the first crusade didn't look like Templars like they do here though. The Templars didn't exist at that time.

I love how history always boils down to, I'll tell you how these people are evil but not how the people I support are. People were dicks, that's why we learn from what they did rather than trying to repeat it.

I just finished Resurrection: Ertugrul and was looking for more. The same guy who told me about Ertugrul, told me about this. Looking forward to watching.

Nice to see an arab perspective to counter the rather one sided and dominant european/u.s. perspective. Good work guys well produced effort. A welcome balance for more informed debate.

a response to all those who said that this video was biased. its called "the crusades from Arab perspective". so... you've got to understand that this is "Arab perspective".

@erikalulea3608

3 жыл бұрын

Or some do not get that the Crusades were SUPER CRUEL. and the term spread by the sword is more accurate to be attached with them then Islam.

"Arab Historians of the Crusades" is a great anthology of primary source material written by Arab and other Muslim chroniclers at the time. Look it up it is invaluable because so many of the sources corroborate the claims of tthe Byzantine Christians, and of the popes, and the crusaders: that Christians were persecuted, and persecuted often.

its interesting to see history from other perspective. thank you.

As a Palestinian, I must say... I love the crusades.

@takshashila2995

4 жыл бұрын

o boi you do

@hillncer1

4 жыл бұрын

not Palestiny but the zionist invader u are

@swellerferret2506

Жыл бұрын

Why?

i have read a book of amin maalouf， named the crusades through Arab eyes

There are many things to learn from this presentation. Kudos, Al Jazeera!

everybody missed the main point: religous fanatism is the real problem, not islam, christian, or judaism.

I am a Catholic, God is with us... AMEN

@avenhojd1755

7 жыл бұрын

Why?

@meimei5590

5 жыл бұрын

😁😂 😁😂

This is a fun documentary for those of us who grew up learning one side of the Crusades. It was mainly to give an outlet to the feudal micro-armies under fief lords that existed solely to fight each other. The pope cannily realized he could divert their energies away from Christendom. This is much better than the BBC series that attempts the same thing, BTW.

thanks for this outstanding documentary

I have a critic around 28:20, regarding the Siege of Nicaea. It was not Crusaders that snuck inside the city by boat. The Byzantines made a deal with the Turk defenders to surrender to them rather than the Crusaders, who were actually miffed when they realised what had happened because they wanted the city. To what Prof. Mahmoud Imran said, they were allowed in precisely because they weren't Crusaders. "True to the oath they had sworn to the emperor, the city of Nicaea was returned to the Byzantines" isn't quite accurate, because they didn't have the chance to hold or break the oath, as it was taken directly by the emperor's men. The Byzantines and Latins (as the Western Christians were known) often clashed, and were not at all a united front against the East.

It amazes me how many people want to continue fighting battles from a thousand years ago. Everyone invaded everyone in the past, wars went on and on, one was ascendant and then another, everyone has a grievance and if the intent is to cast blame then everyone is guilty. The past has made us who we are, but only a fool is ruled by it.

Jonathan Philips, professor of history, University of London, is very good. A lot of the actors look more like accountants than medieval warriors.

@jjt1881

3 жыл бұрын

True.

A story everyone can learn from independent of religion or affiliation!

People complain about historical bias, like its something you can escape. All history has inescapable historical bias. You can only hear all sides and decide for yourself. I'm glad to see this from a different perspective.

It's good to get another perspective on the Crusades.

The comments section reminds me of KZread Crusades

@jjt1881

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pathetic.

This program offered quite a bit of new insight for me. . Looking forward to the next three segments.

great video thanks.make

Do you have this documentation also in German language?

*"Kill them all. God will know his own"* -Both sides

@samuelvimes7686

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. Both religions claim to be peaceful. And both where spread by the sword and have an insane amount of blood on their hands. Religion always was and always will be a handful tool and catalyst to influence gullible people to wage war. Nothing so sad as people killing other people in the name of superstition

@ummo2675

3 жыл бұрын

@Oana Cristina N-ai inteles nimic din crestinism...doar Noul Testament e biblia adevarata a crestinilor (adeptii lui Cristos), pentru ca reprezinta "noua lege" , de pace si iubire, total diferita de cea din Torah, Vechiul Testament, "ochi pentru ochi si dinte pentru dinte". Vechiul Testament a fost utilizat de biserica catolica pentru a justifica crimele comise in numele religiei, din evul mediu.

@ashokafulcrum4795

3 жыл бұрын

@Oana Cristina I must have imagined that verse of "the people of the book who disbelieve (the final message of Mohammed) shall abide in eternal hellfire" *Verse 96:8* And don't act like the verse doesn't point towards Mohammeds "Final Message", because it does,... It clearly says

@lifeanddeath3072

3 жыл бұрын

@Oana Cristina lol shut up

Salahuddin was Kurdish not Arab. This was defenetly from an Arab prospective he's not going to say the truth the Crusades was a response to Muslim aggression.

For all of you that have to watch this for "The Individual in Society"... I'm with you.

interesting show, enjoyed the history....

the comment section shows how the crusades still are relevant today, and a sensitive subject. very interesting to see different perspectives about it

@grahamt5924

Жыл бұрын

The Crusades are just the failure of Europeans to retake what they lost. Constantinople is another reminder of what was lost in Europe as well. Europeans have for the most part been divided against themselves. Just look at what we are doing to ourselves again in Ukraine.

Currently reading the book “Saladin” by John man (british),came to have a visual taste. Nice docu by AlJazerra. Surely all these academics are more knowledgeable than all these dislikers and hateful commentators...

Is there an english version available? I don’t understand why didn’t you change arabic voices with english

thanks the video was very educational.

@mohammadfarooq4244

6 жыл бұрын

like video's

Still calling jihad today....

@mhuq4854

7 жыл бұрын

The Jihad shall flourish till the end times.

@mhuq4854

7 жыл бұрын

***** You've been reading apocryphal texts. And no, I've got an IQ of 130.

I am just starting the series but I hope they don't forget to mention that christianity was on the constant defensive since the muslims invaded the roman empire. P.S. 15 minutes into the episode I realised that the documentary is describing exactly the problems that modern islamic countries are facing today ... overpopulation, weak economic systems and religious fanatism. I guess history is repeating itself.

here's my input on this. As someone majoring in history people tend to get the origins of the crusades wrong. Here is how the first Crusade started. The Byzantine Emperor sent an appeal for help to push back the Seljuk Turks after the massive defeat at Manzikert. The Emperor was expecting a small crack force of europe's best which he could build an army around. What he didn't expect was the Pope who was attempting to assert Papal authority after the investiture crisis and call for a religious crusade. It didn't help that the Seljuks were harassing Christian pilgrims. In fact the Emperor was displeased by how the crusaders tended to raid his lands and was further insulted that he lands reconquered weren't returned to his rule. So in a nutshell, the Crusades were a big mess with neither side being right while the Byzantines, it was a simple call for aid that got out of hand

As a british man this is so refreshing to finally find a documentary on the arab perspective. One thing though that i think they get wrong - They say the priests of western europe at this time would not have known how to read or write - this is definitely not true. Even your average peasant would have had sufficient reading skills for most basic things during this time.

@ADawoodKiwi

3 жыл бұрын

It was true in many cases. Like how political offices are often filled through nepotism and corruption, similar things could happen in the church as well.

@neilanadams5173

3 жыл бұрын

That fact alone shows how absurd the claims in the documentary are. A priest had to read his breviary as just one example. It is not a historical take but a mythical Arab fantasy. Yes some things are true but far too embellished like a corrupt oral history instead of scholarly.

@dahjeekwenglee5909

3 жыл бұрын

​@@ADawoodKiwi It was not the standard though. Of course its possible that there were anomalies. But its false, as even most of the local populace and peasants would have been able to read simple things.

a very good documentary and an insight into the crusades. i was always interested in knowing about crusades; i am very thankful to aljazeera for producing such enlightning films.

@nemesis1291

2 жыл бұрын

Lousy propaganda and blatant lies, the crusades was an act of love and self defense. Saracen was attacking, killing and robbing Christian pilgrims.

this is going to be good LOL. you only take two thirds of the Christian lands over hundreds of years and then you're shocked when you stirred up the Beehive the bees came to sting you. actually thinking about it now I guess some stuff never changes.

@JonSmith-yq1dw

7 жыл бұрын

10 minutes and it's what I would expect from a state-controlled media of Qatar

@JonSmith-yq1dw

7 жыл бұрын

+Jon Smith and I almost guarantee you that there's no mention of the slave trade in the east

@DocRealTalk

7 жыл бұрын

To be fair in modern history that flipped. And now it's the other way around.

@highonsmog

7 жыл бұрын

Jon Smith The local Arabs converted to Islam. According to you, European Christians were simply taking Arabia back? You should tell jokes for a living. ROFL!

@LiveGame555

7 жыл бұрын

+highonsmog They were never after Arabia, but the Levant, North Africa (including Egypt), Iberia, and Anatolia were all Christian before the Muslim Invasion. Mesopotamia was also a hot-bed of Christianity, Zoroastrianism (Persian religion incase you didn't know), and Mesopotamian Paganism.

The account of the siege of Nicaea is at odds with everything I've heard on the subject. Is there a source for this account?

@jjt1881

3 жыл бұрын

The only difference is that they forgot to mention that the Byzantines managed to get the city to surrender to them before the crusaders could sack it.

Why some of the flags in the Esseda fortifications were blurred out?

Well -done documentary by Al Jazeera. Good interviews and reenactments coupled with the well-chosen images make it watchable. Considering Muslim resentment and envy of the West the film is a well-balanced and tempered effort. A bigger budget would have given the battles a more epic scope but this has been a good one and it would be nice to see the rest of the series.

Education, we all must learn from history, we don't want to make the same mistake twice.

@maktoobyt2009

3 жыл бұрын

It’s happening, Ashkanazi jews (white European From Poland) are occupying Jerusalem as we speak. There is no turning back.

Amazing...

in these four part documentaries i see that the way of thinking then is the same as it is now, but two things in today's world i see have improved many lives: first is the internet which provides unlimited education to the masses, and second for those of us who live in the usa the second amendment