Below are links to articles and research publications about the Crusades from the University of Wisconsin, Fordhan University, St. Louis University, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This is an on-going personal project designed to provides links to many different resources to study of the Crusades so more links will be added over time.
We have to ask ourselves do historical facts show that Islamic leaders were imperialistic and aggressive? Does some of that aggression and drive for Islamic hegemony come from the Quran itself where there are chapters on war and verses that state Islam is to rein supreme over all other religions?
First, to get a better understanding, we need to study the history of the Islamic caliphates. A very basic starting point comes from a list of caliphs from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not generally a good source, in and of itself, but it does provides us a list of the caliphs and resources to study further. So each source cited has to be evaluated individually.
CALIPHATES:
Caliphates: University of Wisconsin History of Islam: A Brief History of Islam. The Rightly guided Caliphs; The Caliphate; Umayyad; Abbasids; North Africa And Spain; After the Mangol Invasion; Ottoman Empire ... Caliphate (Islamic history) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia - CRUSADES:
A History of the Crusades published by the University of Wisconsin Press
Published over a twenty year period beginning in 1969, was intended to serve as a collaborative and comprehensive treatment of the topic, ranging in time from the first 100 years of the Crusades to their ultimate impact on the histories of the Near East and Europe. The work is comprised of six volumes, each of which is included here in its entirety.
Each section is searchable:
The first hundred years (1969)
The later Crusades, 1189-1311 (1969)
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1975)
The art and architecture of the crusader states (1977)
The impact of the Crusades on the Near East (1985)
The impact of the Crusades on Europe (1989)
Links in this database that came up with the word "Islamic"
The first hundred years (1969)
III: The Caliphate and the Arab States, pp. [80]-98
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IV: The Ismailites and the Assassins, pp. 99-[133]
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V: The Turkish Invasion: The Selchukids, pp. [134]-176
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XVIII: The Rise of Saladin, 1169-1189, pp. 562-589
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Index, pp. 667-707
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The Crusades: Fordham University
The Real History of the Crusades by Dr. Thomas Madden who is chair of the department of history at Saint Louis University
"...So what is the truth about the Crusades? Scholars are still working some of that out. But much can already be said with certainty. For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression—an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands...
Thomas F. Madden is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Saint Louis University. He is the author of numerous works, including The New Concise History of the Crusades, and co-author, with Donald Queller, of The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. This special version for the ARMA was reprinted by permission of Crisis Magazine,www.crisismagazine.com.
The First Crusade The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In November 1095, Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont-Ferrand in France to launch the First Crusade. The aim was to aid the Christians of the East and return to Christian control the Holy Sepulcher, the church in Jerusalem said to contain the tomb of Christ. Absolution from sin and eternal glory were promised to the Crusaders..."
Second and Third Crusade
In 1147–49, the Second Crusade, championed by the abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, attempted to take Damascus in Syria. The campaign was a dismal failure because the Muslims had regrouped...
According to Islamicity, the Crusades were a minor irritant.
Jordan - History - The Islamic Periods and the Crusades King Hussein.gov
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East 2009 Conference May 7-9, 2009
1924 NYT: WHY THE TURKS GOT RID OF CALIPHATE; Had Become Centre of Domestic Plots and …



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