Muslim Eyewitness Describes Brutality of Crusaders and Richard I (1187 - 1191) // Baha Ad-Din
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Extracts from The Life of Saladin by Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad translated by Claude Reignier Conder
(1897) Published by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Soundtrack licensed from Epidemic Sound/Artlist.
Footage from Videoblocks.
The fragment between 3:17 and 4:13 was very interesting and surprising, almost 'wholesome' for the Crucades.
I love the wide range of perspectives this channel provides. It's always a treat when you upload a new video.
I wonder what language they used to converse with each other?
What a way to teach the youth how the men fight. All the way down to the taking of prisoners for ransom as opposed to just killing.
@@bananaboy444 taking prisoners for ransom was very common before the 19th century. This is because usually men will be wounded in battle and lying down, giving the victor the option to either strike a death blow or take captive for ransom.
Ransom was an incredibly big source of wealth.
The Aztecs, Turks, and Europeans did this; though I havent heard of the Japanese do this
Its pretty regular in war and shows up a lot in history
Happened during ww1 too
I wonder how that would effect you mentally to share friendly words with someone then to have to switch to killing them. I wonder how many men had nightmares or a lifetime of pain and remorse because of these small acts of humanity during war. I couldn't imagine how that must have felt.
You know you’ve been at war too long when you’re on a first name basis with your opponent.
oof , very real, also well first names had a different konotation back then as last names were just coming into use
"Wanna get some kids and bet on who can win in a fight?"
@@pkerch00b1 “I’ve got a new move for the Dance floor, I’ll show it to you tonight after the battle.”
*"Hannibal."*
*"Scipio."*
@@nowhereman6019 that was antiquity not middleages, and a different culture, you could aswell use an example from china, or the atztecs.
_"... This is getting boring fam, how about we arrange a kid fight?... "_
After I heard they would stop fighting to sing and dance with eachother I thought forsure they they would say "we need to make peace". But when I heard they brought kids out to fight wtf lmao, what were our ancestors thinking.
@@donutsrgood4491 They have merely reached such levels of Based our modern subdued minds are incapable of understanding
Kids weren't babies back then. They were just smaller adults.
@@donutsrgood4491 Things haven't changed much. Kids still live in peril, mostly from relatives and people willing to purchase them for ill purposes.
@@donutsrgood4491 hmmm well what else are you going to do? Go back to your farm and catch the Black Death? Professional soldiering (Knights) was just a badass reinterpretation of hunters but for a largely advanced agrarian society. Men divided it up between Food Providers and Cultural Defenders, our current governments function exactly the same. Interior and defense
the imagery of a giant man throwing stones at people and then getting glass'd by a bottle of flaming naptha is just insane.
With even a conservative estimate of 20 arrows stuck into him. absolutely based.
That's probably the only way you can defeat the Mountain in GoT, but with jars of wildfire instead.
Goodness Gracious Great Balls Of Fire !
Just goes to show truth is stranger than fiction. How many heroic final stands were not recorded by history?
@@WELLbethere well there's that badass berserker at Stamford Bridge. That his name was forgotten is one of the great injustices of History too 😉
That segment about the soldiers on both sides behaving in a friendly way with each other between bouts of fighting surprised me. Reminds me of the Christmas Truce in WWI. I didn't know there was such an event during the Crusades. It's pretty cool actually.
Seljuks: Wait, European heretic
The older I get the more I realize: Most times it's not people who like to fight other people, but specific men who want to fight very other specific men.
I find it funny how many people have no concept of day to day life in extended war. We don't stop being human.
Friendly visits happened between Yanks and Johnny Rebs during our Civil War, also.
The xmas truce….was considered treason…imagine…fratternizing with the enemy, because you find common ground…which supposedly is the goal of war…lol and being threatened with treason..in WW1
“ the English soldiers have a strange habit of stripping almost naked in the noon day sun whilst drinking a foamy liquid which makes them very rowdy and rude chanting eng-ger-lun. These heathen are most barbaric”
Just imagine, In the same time period Genghis khan was born on the other end of the earth whose hordes will be unleashed on the levant
If Saladin was alive, Genghis Khan would be nothing
@@kingofdetroit358 If not for Muslims, khan would have made it into Europe
@@jonnyenough1531 he did made it europe but clapped in russia poland crotia and coucasus
@@mnbvcxyyxcvbnm7946 “western Europe”
@@hezekhoshea1961
The gates of Vienna
Soldiers can usually relate better to the enemy than they can to civilians back at home. If both sides fight well you grow to respect one another.
Yea, no
@DukeOfTennessee117 Probably less so in modern warfare...
not really for the indoctrinated soldiers who has superior weaponry, use planes & drones to bombard children 24/7.
“And then the Emir made the biggest mistake of his life; he read the comments!”
This is the 4th comment down and im going to learn from this and history and halt now.
@@flynnlivescmd A wise choice.
🤣🤣🤣
“Oh the flaming insults hurled by young men in their fathers castles basements. Playing chess. “
But the emir was not to be out done hurling his own flaming retorts. It was only when the emir finally claimed “I knowest thou are but what pray am I?” All discourse silenced!
@@no1fibersplicer525 10/10 🤣
the knight who stood on the wall then got hit 50 times and still didnt go down till he got molotoved ....just amazing bravery
"'tis but a flesh wound!"
A giant
The stories on this earth
meanwhile ppl are crying over pronuns...
"I'm tired of religious war, I need a break, lets make the kids play war instead and we'll just watch and play along."
Still true to this day, the only difference? Today kids are infants compared to kids 1000yrs ago💀
Fun Fact: King Richard lived the majority of his life in France and spoke little to no English.
Wasn’t French literally the língua franca of the Angevin empire tho? (His dynasty)
They're all inbred and related
He was Norman wasn’t he ? And wasn’t French sort of his first language?
@@Internut1985
No he wasn't a Norman
He was french
No he wasn’t!
Stop perpetuating this falsity. He was directly related to William the conqueror who was a Norman. Normans have been fighting French from their very birth of existence they came from Vikings. They did not speak French they spoke Latin. Romans also spoke Latin does that make them French? Richard also bore the coat of arms of the three lines which is coincidentally the flag of the Normans stop pulling stuff out of your ass
I'd love to hear stories from the Baltic Crusades, in the North of Europe. Please, consider it someday!
I’ve got a very short interesting one. As you may or may not know animal sacrifice is completely forbidden in Christianity and is regarded as something strictly pagan, but it seems like the Teutonic Knights picked up some pagan practises from the Baltic natives while living alongside them and there’s a little bit of evidence that they started to sacrifice animals and give ‘offerings’ to the Christian God like the pagans do for their Gods.
*When the battle was over, the brothers [Teutonic knights] and their allies all dismounted onto the grass and their hearts were happy. Their rage rightly disappeared when they found they had lost no one, and for this they praised Jesus Christ, Savior of the World, Who was worthy of their honor. They divided the weapons and horses equally, and a share was set aside for God in heaven. The whole land benefited from this expedition.*
This practice is mentioned in greater detail in a description of a sacrifice of booty performed after a successful raid in Samogithia
*The Christians took all the booty they could carry, and then devastated the land with fire and returned home. When they came back to Riga and when the townspeople heard how things had gone well for them, they all immediately praised God in heaven for having mercifully defended Christendom with this expedition. With the counsel of his brothers, the master gave a part of the booty to our Lord, because he had given them a safe journey. He had earned His share, and they gave Him weapons and horses.*
It’s a matter of what they mean by ‘they gave him weapons and horses.’ It sounds like they sacrificed horses to Jesus or something.
@@luxinvictus9018
But they’re not literally offering those sheep as a sacrifice to Jesus, right? Cause that would be wrong. You don’t give offerings or sacrifice to Jesus in Christianity since Jesus is meant to represent the last and ultimate sacrifice (so there’s no need for sacrifice). In fact, the first thing Christians did to undermine paganism in the Roman Empire when they got into power was to ban animal sacrifice. You have to remember that the main reason why Christians were so heavily persecuted in the Roman Empire was because they refused to make any animal sacrifices. You can only pray to God in Christianity or do charity.
As for sheep entrails, it’s actually considered a kind of delicacy in many parts of the world. The entrails are usually stuffed with rice and other stuff from what I know.
The history of Church ban on taking pagan natives' land as a product of a debate between Poland/Lithuania and Templars/HRE
@@theuniverse5173 no doesn’t it comes out of the Jewish faith which is monotheistic the pagan element comes from Christianity being introduced to pagan Europe by the Romans.
@@bensenders4716
I think the trinity might derive from Hellenic influence, especially Greek philosophy like Plato.
3:15 this is somehow fascinating. Reality is stranger than fiction sometimes.
everybody wants to be loved by their enemy, kinda Gay if you ask me
@@sipsofhell9018 lol.
@@sipsofhell9018 I think "respected" would be more accurate.
@@meneither3834 sure lets go with that
Its not really all that rare in prolonged wars
It is interesting that Acre would actually outlive not just Saladin but the sultanate he built as well. It was the Mamluks who overthrew the Ayyubids that finally conquered it.
Ayyubids regime authority is only around Baghdad. Fatimid regime the ruler of Egypt, jerusalem not ayyubids.
@@trying3650 That's the Abbasids you're thinking of. The Ayyubids, founded by Saladin, overthrew the Fatimid Caliphate and were eventually overthrown by the Mamluks
Indeed!
Siege of Akkah (1291 CE): The Mamlukes of Egypt and Syria defeated the Latin Crusaders, taking the last remaining major Latin Crusader stronghold in the Levant, and decisively put an end to the Latin crusading endeavor in the region.
The ayyubids pretty much collapsed after salahuddin's death, so that's not really than great of a feat.
@@Saladid that's like saying the mongols pretty much collapsed after Ogedei. They were weaker but not insignificant. Plus when you consider the difficulties supplying a city in the middle east back then when European magnates often had more important interests, it wasn't a cakewalk
Primary sources and videos like this are a big part of why I'm going to school for archives. Keep up the great work!
There are countless Islamic hadith they describe muhammad murdering whole groups of people even singing girls and other innocents. Genociding. Enslaving. R#ping a nine year old child and slaves. Letting his men r#ped captive married women.
I'm glad that The english translation beautifully managed to hold the poetic nature of the text's original language.
I see Gregor Clegane fought at the siege of Acre too
I wonder if Muslim Martell ever got his revenge
That was Sandor,and that how he got his burn scars
11:55 damn son, can you imagine to witness that scene? In any case this is the closest that we can get to that experience, and for that you have my like and appreciation!
Absolute unit of a bloke
Probably an angel
It is pretty amazing. However, while there are definitely feats that are beyond belief that happen, we also need to keep in mind that primary sources, even if they are eyewitness, doesn't necessarily mean they are the truth. Not saying that people are purposely lying but things could be exaggerated or misremembered.
@@stealthyshiroean wise words !
I believe it was a man with the same genetic disorder or disability that "Andre the Giant" had as it was from French/Frank lineage that it occurred.
4:03 if it is not obvious, "making him prisoner" is just a rule in wrestling games back then.
As it is today. We in the west call it being “pinned” or “pinning” these days.
And the loser will pay 2 gold to buy his kid back aka if you lose you pay
I'm so happy to have found this channel, the content is outstanding. So engaging, with these first hand accounts that are narrated brilliantly Bravo sir 🙏
@Nocoinersbtfo Thankfully our jidadi brothers didn't live on these Isles during the crusades. They would all have been crucified and fed to pigs. Praise be we live in more civilised times now and our Muslim friends join us to drink wine and be merry.
@Nocoinersbtfo You're stuck in 2016.
@Nocoinersbtfo My username is literally "Tsuneo Hasegawa" how is that anywhere close to Zhang?
"Mornin' Abdul"
"mornin' John"
"I believe I was in a high guard and you were striking down with your scimitar when we left off?"
"sounds about right to me. Alright... and... go!"
I was hoping you would do an episode on Baha Ad-hin. This made my night ✌
12:25: dudes had fire specialists.
Pyromancy > Poise
Pyrotechnics specialist on call for dealing with chads
Caesar and Saladin watching themselves become salad memes in the 21st century: *"Am I a joke to you?"*
Caesar- also a JoJo reference
@ملقرت ملك صور Caesar salad is an Italian salad dish.
Saladin sounds like we're saying "salad in".
... man, typing right to left Arabic-style is odd for me! XD
@ملقرت ملك صور It's just an Anglicised, shortened way of saying it - happens with a lot of historical names, like Caesar being pronounced "See-Zur" instead of "Kai-zar". In the grand scheme of things, it is just a mis-pronunciation and doesn't matter too much.
I'm not sure where the Greeks specifically being to blame come into that if I'm honest.
However they learned it, it was the lingua franca just as English today and guess what - lots pf people struggle with the language, but still use it to get by.
@ملقرت ملك صور 😂
I don't doubt the brutality of the crusaders considering what they did to Constantinople
They could only do that to Constantinople because of what the crusaders did to it first.
What did they do to constantinople?
@@republicradio431 they were supposed to help them, but instead the crusaders sacked the city, raped civilians, desecrated churches, tombs, and did countless unspeakable unspeakable acts. The Byzantine (Roman) Empire fell to the Muslims because of what the crusaders did.
@@Nihilistic_Soul you can apply that logic all the way back to the beginning of humanity, blaming one person or group for instigating another until you come to one caveman hitting another over the heat for his meat. It doesn't justify anything, certainly not blaming an entire group of people for something their ancestors did.
@@user-cr3pn7rk2v who was raped and what unspeakable things?
And that Pyrotechnist just showed y'all miscreants why a well-placed Fireball is ALWAYS a viable option...
7:00 Crusaders getting rekt because they started looting alcohol tent, and gave enemy time to counter, timeless classic.12:10 - a man struck by 50 arrows and stones, finished finally by pyrotechnicals who threw molotovs at him and burned him with nafta. Some impressive armour right there.
The crusaders were assholes ngl, they raped every woman they could find after they entered the city and set the city on fire.
Rekt? Do you mean wrecked?
@@kellydalstok8900 y thx
@@kellydalstok8900It’s gamerspeak for thoroughly beaten.
The Lion arrives
The Lion Arrives at 3:32
Really worried about the pagan Vikings arriving ;) ;) ;)
@@stormysmurf they already did. And then converted.
What does that mean?
@@stormysmurf pagans was Arabs and still they are
Absolutely riveting, on the edge of my seat every other sentence. Now this is what I call podracing.
The podracing reference was really stretched there, almost like you had to *Force* it...
@@mike7652 Good one.
You have all unlocked ultimate cringe. Pat yourselves on the back accordingly!
Please make an episode about Usama ibn Munqidh and his account on the crusades in his book: "Kitab al-I'tibar: ("Book of Learning by Example")
@@HAYAOLEONE Why not?
🤔Wow. What a title…
I have an English translation of Usama bin Munqidh’s book, and it is a rollicking good read! Perfect materiel for this channel.
@@samy7013 Nice
3:55 have you noticed these "side quests" always ends up in the victory of author side
Yes, a historian would interpret this as follows: there probably were kid wrestling games happening rarely and the author chose to talk about one of these matches where the kid from his side own. This kind of biases is the norm, especially in older texts, but they still invaluable to our understanding of history.
He also doesn’t talk about how Saladin was defeated in every battle against Richard.
@@Creativethinker12 The irony of criticizing someone 1000 years ago for being biased while being biased as hell in 2021, something for historians 1000 years from now to study.
@@Creativethinker12well he had been fighting constantly for years by then, and had got back Jerusalem, much of its kingdom, and started the reversal that eventually saw the crusaders lose every part of the levant that they had invaded and become disillusioned with the whole idea at the end.. the big picture that we can see after all these centuries, looking back? The crusades, considering death count , resources , effort & time , was a huge failure in every way possible, I mean it literally was all for nothing, just a sh*tload of people dying. much like many of the western "interventions" and "invasions" we see today
@@jerres9585 Hmmm, and yet the Jews have Jerusalem today.
You can tell that the writer is Arab (Kurdish) because of how much poetry he sews in his words. Brilliant video and an excellent perspective to one of the most important figures in history
What do you mean Arab(Kurdish)? Kurds are not Arabs.
@@TheSharingarMaster he mean his writing is arabic
@@miracleyang3048 Yes but the way he wrote it if someone doesn't know will think there is no difference.
I don't know about Kurdish but definitely Arabic
@@TheSharingarMaster
Well mentioning his Kurdish origins is wrong if you ask me and totally irrelevant.
His work is Arabic he never wrote a single word in any language except arabic
Not to mention that his Kurdish origin is doubted as best he himself was known as an Assadi (from the Arab tribe Banu Assad)
This channel is criminally underrated.
There are countless Islamic hadith they describe muhammad murdering whole groups of people even singing girls and other innocents. Genociding. Enslaving. R#ping a nine year old child and slaves. Letting his men r#ped captive married women.
Great video. Insta-subscribed!
11:51 is my favourite part. Big dude with 50 arrows sticking out of him, single-handedly holding off the Saracens 'til he's incinerated. Bad arse.
Saracens had fairly weak bows. A knight in maile and with a good gambeson would literally have arrows sticking out of him, but none would have penetrated, often giving impression of an unbeatable beast. (which don't get me wrong, they absolutely were, just not for this reason)
Arrows were probably sticking to the armor I’m guessing
These are arabs, whom just starts fighting again as militia after saladin upsurped his turkic master
The real proper army of muslim are turkic, they have proper bows and armour
I just finished reading the biography of William Marshal by Thomas Asbridge it covers his short journey in the holyland before the fall of the leper king Baldwin, one of the kings kin butchered the Beduins who were under protection and also provided service helping lead to the decline. When Richard came it was the horrible siege of Acre, later Saladin took everything back.
I just found this channel, and its exactly what my consumption of historical content needed. I love throwing on something educational, while I carve or do what not, and this is Perfect for that👏 .
it's great ey?
Really like your content. Thank you!
Dude...
The comment section of this channel sounds, different, than last time I checked it.
There only needs to be one of these guys sharing "crusade content" on one of their Discords or anonymous Imageboards for the herd to come here in full force.
King Richard arriving to Acre is a certified "The Slayer has entered the facility" moment
I just wished he shared the same lifetime as Baibars so we could find out who the real slayer is.
Dude, I have seen so many of these Muslim accounts. All by some guy who's name starts with "Ibdn-" and they are all so BEAUTIFULLY written. They are so wise it pains me to see what the middle-east has become now.
Terrible, what decades of foreign invasion does to a people. Most of them were doing so good in the mid 20th century :(
All thanks to American-backed Saudi wahhabism. Both ISIS and Al Qaeda have the same ideology as the Saud family which is a critical US ally. America is the worst thing to happen to the Middle East since the Mongol invasions.
@@yaz2928 Ignores the fact Israel is their ally as well
@@bonnie7898 those were the spawn of western institutions that they left behind
@@bonnie7898 it doesn't take a genius to realize that the reason the middle East now is such a shit hole is because of constant American invasion and interference. Not only have they sent shit like the C.I.A to fuck up governments but they also back terrorists to destroy shit.
8:18 Frankish female fighters 11:55 Giant Frank
What about the slaughter of 4000 captives? It is never a good idea to break a promise much less murder in cold blood.
@@Greg-yu4ij Meh like in The Battle of Agincourt - killing useless captives must be an English habit.
Sounds like a title for a xxx film
....
I’m so thankful to you for making this amazing content. I’m not even that much of a history fanatic but this is just too good to dismiss. Just beautiful. Bravo, sir. Bra-f*ckin-vo! 👏👏👏👏
Wonderful! How can i find this as a podcast?
Imagine being Saladin. You have to fight the professional warrior class of an entire continent.
Not the entire continent. Not by far. Mostly Franks, Germans and English men. Imagine being a Frank, German or English man travling so far on boat to a whole different world, fighting soldiers from the entire Muslim world (which is much much much larger then the tiny continent of Europe as a whole).
@@RandomNorwegianGuy. while the crusade were equipped with almost every need of bring a soldier
@@RandomNorwegianGuy. you're making shit up
Not to mention the wealth of a continent. France bankrupted itself.
@@haraldisdead You’re the one making shit up dude
I'm a bit hard of hearing, is there a way we can get subtitles for these? Any which way, thanks for all your work!
Hi Karen, I would help subtitle as much videos I could work on, but I believe that the owner of the content must allow people to help with it.
@Andreas Ivanovich There were no auto-generated CC's when I watched. Also, the auto-generated subtitles aren't usually very good for these sorts of subjects/vocabulary.
There are subtitles if you click CC.
I love these videos. Fascinating stuff.
King Richard I in western media: benevolent honorable king
King Richard I in actual history: treacherous warmonger that abandoned his own country, almost left it to ruin.
Great to hear the other side of the Crusades. It gives you a very different take on it.
🙏for posting
always good to hear from all sides of the subject good presentation.
I remember when you had less than 50k subs :,) They grow up so fast
I Love This Channel! Thank You!
10:50
The franks were rejoicing that the English king had arrived.
You know you've got to be a pretty good Lord when you get a 100% approval rating from the french lads.
You know king Richard is French, he just king of England, not English man, he didn't speak English, he speak old French,
They were all basically Franks, i.e West Germanics. The Franks of that time included many more cultures than the French of today.
@@Gliese380
"Franks" were pretty much just a generic term for all western Europeans
@@khaleddekar2188 he was born in England therefore he’s English. By your logic Napoleon isn’t french.
@@Brunaa00098 Correct, up till this day the word for a westerner in arabic at least levantine dialect is franji (frankish), on the other hand Franks made a large percentage of the crusaders army so..
grate videos love your videos
10:48 BOSS MUSIC
Superb as usual ! Thanks
Hello how are you doing today I hope you’re having a wonderful day
Your welcome
I think you mean jihad, not "counter crusade".
In this context, the terms were synonymous. The jihad _was_ a counter-crusade, and met with success, all praise being to Allah the Exalted.
Smae difference
@@samy7013 the presence of Israel and the easy with which western military defeat MiddleEastern country would suggest you rethink this
@@samy7013 I think the issue is that it makes the muslims look (relatively) innocent, as though they were minding their own business before being forced to defend themselves when in reality there were centuries of muslim invasions all over southern europe, with even northward countries being subject to raids and slavers. Eventually, when the church and the peasantry shared a common enemy, you got the crusades. Over time there would be a lot of bloodshed from both sides but lets not forget for a second who started it.
@@tidlywankIf that's the case then u should look before way past of birth of Islamic states. How did the european paganism end, how did during Muslim siege of Jerusalem there were no jews in the holy city, who did burn down the scholars and the library of alexandria in the name of religion....all these has one answer christianity. U guys were started it 2000 years ago.
"God had chosen them for martyrdom"
PRISIONER: Wait, ¿whaaaat?
Martyrdom in Islam is actually good as it guarantees reward of the highest level of paradise.
@@oghuzdynasty777 yea the many many suicide bombers have shown us that 😐
@@KristinkaAranova martyrm is for one who fought in a religiouse war. Suicide is a sin in islam and therefore you will go ro hell if you do it.
*Small Brain:* You're getting executed
*Big Brain:* You're being relieved of your earthly duties.
*Galaxy Brain:* God has chosen you....for martyrdom.
Never!!! Muslim Martyrs do it with pride, for Islam
It's absolutely astonishing the sheer number of Christians angry in the comments that an 11th-century Muslim historian who had literally fought n war against Christians wouldn't portray a perfectly accurate and unbiased account of history. Like.. no shit, buddy? Did you expect a lecture on the complex nuance of middle ages geo-politics?
They’re not random christians, they’re angry white supremacists and nazis. Like, half of them don’t even hide it.
@@PasteurizedLettuce Why does the maker of this video never cover lesser known but more interesting accounts like the Muslim invasion of Egypt by John of Nikiu?
EDIT
"Secondly, how do you feel about the other video that this channel also made that was explicitly covering the crusades from the point of view of the crusaders?"
It was a highly deceptive work that carefully chose quotes while leaving others out.
"Also, since you provided a question, I'll provide a possible answer: 1. They just haven't yet."
Then they should get to it
"2. They only wanted to do these videos to cover the crusades which are a more well known chapter in history so that they can get more clicks."
Somewhat true but content on the earlier muslim attacks should garner attention
"3."
A guys belief about events from over 500 years ago should differ in quality from what happened just yesterday.
"4. Since the account of John of Nikon is not eyewitness, it is generally speaking not consistent with the overall theme of this channel including journals and eyewitness accounts from particular eras."
They have Herotodus histories on here, your argument is completely invalid. Lets not even get into the point that John was not an eye witness in the same way as many of the accounts here aren't direct eye witness accounts.
@@henrymiller5833 Interesting question, but I'd need to establish a few things first - what evidence can you provide that it is more interesting?
@@henrymiller5833 Secondly, how do you feel about the other video that this channel also made that was explicitly covering the crusades from the point of view of the crusaders?
@@henrymiller5833 Also, since you provided a question, I'll provide a possible answer: 1. They just haven't yet. 2. They only wanted to do these videos to cover the crusades which are a more well known chapter in history so that they can get more clicks. 3. Assuming they know about this account, and that they explicitly chose not to, perhaps they have some reservation about the content, not limited to the fact that the one you're referring to is acutally infamous for containing some peculiar historical assertions, such as that Julius Caesar's mother received a caesarian section. 4. Since the account of John of Nikon is not eyewitness, it is generally speaking not consistent with the overall theme of this channel including journals and eyewitness accounts from particular eras.
Great work, thank you!
Incredible. Simply miraculous that this account survived the ages.
What really intresting with arabic books of middle age is that European are describe as polytheist and barbarian that sack the noble christian of the Roman Empire (so a clear differentiation between pre-barbaric invasion european and the frank-wisigoth….)
11:51 Dark Souls moment
lol
Still lost to Pyro build lmao
@@deviousN dude got chaos bed vestige to the face 💥
More bad ass than Dark Souls.
berk reference
Any chance you'll do a video about Peter Hagendorf? He was a German Mercenary who fought in the Thirty Years War and wrote a book of his experience.
Yes!!!
Hello how are you doing today I hope you’re having a wonderful day
Is there a way to find the transcripts for these videos?
1:56 check out that happy little lion on the guy's shield
What's the name of a soundtrack at 19:00? Thank you!
The level of butthurt in the comments/dislikes... I know a lot of you are invested in the whole notion of the crusaders being the "good guys", but this channel is about first-hand accounts from contemporary people. OBVIOUSLY the Muslim historian is going to be biased, just like every person quoted in those videos.
I'd like to say there's no "bias". Why should there be? Becaue he's Muslim? He's writing what he experienced.
11:52, Muslims must have finally ran into "The Mountain".
The franks have brought a war machine of terrible... implication.
So arrogant man they were defeated
@@pinkzero281 when your enemy has a 100:1 numerical superiority and you're fighting off home turf its not likely they would win.
@@jbweld6193 Wonderful safety net to cope with defeat. Crusaders fucked around and found out.
@Alex-tx2em 1000yrs later.. the middle east still lives in the middle ages. Who really won..
Bro let's get an account of Ibn Battuta's travels
What song are you using at 17:00 minutes?
Do you post on Spotify?
1:56 Imagine being the only warrior there to have his shield emblazoned with the terrifying image of...
A... HAMSTER 🐹!!!
So adorable
ahaha, but what is it really, a lion?
Never seen monty python did you, never trust a small animal
During the Crusades, even the hamsters were badass!
Funny how God was on everyone's side.
Ya hilarious even.
Two-faced so and so?
Trick question: they're different gods.
@@Jim-Mc technically no. Same God, different "prophets". Like Mohammed for islam or the Son of God himself Jesus Christ for Christianity. People back then didnt argue if there was a God or not, they argued about which religion wrote it down correctly. Obviously I'm no expert so take it with a grain of salt, that's just what I've loosely learned over time, could be wrong
@@sabreTXC3 yeah exactly
imagine if this was the plot for the prequel to Disney's Robin Hood
Comprehensive breakdown of the title "Saladin":
Sˤalaħud-deen (the consecutive pronunciation of sˤalaħ aldeen) sˤalaħ meaning 'righteousness', 'al' meaning 'the', and 'deen' meaning religion/path, and so when they come together they are pronounced sˤalaħud-deen, and the closest anglosized version would be: Salahuddeen
*Note: this is of course in Arabic, even though Salahuddeen was Kurdish.
It's a nickname, not his actual name.
@@gadthefunny yes I probably should've made that clearer
@@gadthefunnyhis actual name was Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub. I wouldnt say nickname was Salah al-din but more like an honorary title name that many rulers took up at that time.
@@lastword8783 Yes, title is more correct. Though, it's not exclusive to rulers.
Can I suggest Robert de Clari’s account? He was a French knight and gives an account of the fourth crusade.
It's definitely beneficial to hear how eyewitnesses themselves saw and experienced things, however you need to keep in mind that those people weren't always objective - at this particular case you can see the bias against crusaders. But it's understandable: you write what your king wants to hear...
There's no way you can justify what the crusaders did to fellow Christians, some of the pope during that era were literally Satan's spawn.. We know you are a good person but St Helen the mother of constantine loom at her relation with mithras and treatment of the Jews.
We know you are a good person, don't justify evil. Be a good Catholic.
@@201student201 1. There's no justification here, it's just pointing out the existance of bias in the sources being part of the experience and immersion here
2. If you're not a priest, don't define "a good catholic"
@@201student201 Please, read again what I wrote. The point I raised was that a guy who is permanently enrolled in the service of Saladin as a judge of the army will definitely write about the enemy he himself is urging the emperor to fight in a biased matter. I didn't say a word to justify the crusaders' evildoings, I just pointed out that we couldn't fully believe in the report of a biased author, even if he's an eyewitness.
Check out Wikipedia or Britannica to find out more about the Baha ad-din, you'll then understand what I meant, hopefully.
@@201student201 Muslims fought each other too. These "alliances" aren't like alliances we have today. They were mutually beneficial business deals. If a deal went sour for one party, they would enact "contract negotiations through other means". It's not unusual. Everyone was constantly stabbing each other in the back. Literally! Add to that being in a foreign land, hungry and often desperate........things can escalate quickly. Not much different than current politics today.
yeah but you wouldn't have posted this comment if author was christian
Why does the writer call the christians "polytheists", at 0:34? Is it perhaps a reference to all the saints christians have?
I think it is because the trinitarians worship the trinity as equals. I could be wrong.
its rightly so. christians view Jesus as a God and God as a God but seperate. It is confusing because of polytheist melding. Islam is a true monotheist religion.
@@ronans9680 nah that's it
It references the trinity. Islam rejects the idea of the treaty and claim that Christian must be polytheist.
Ignorant of christianity
Context is king, history is full of suffering and misery of the poor for the games and play of the states and overlords.
The plebians still think wars were fought over religion. Religion was always an excuse and a veil to hide the true ambitions of kings.
People don't know this?
Nha, these statesman and overlords were fighting and dying as well. It was something else entirely.
When you are threatened with extinction, you have to fight.
I am Loving your Crusade videos!
Great video :)
When I'm just listening and not watching; often while working, it's impossible to tell the ad read apart from the video ending. Thinking it might be a good idea to put a caveat in there so others don't make the mistake I almost did
The Muslim army fought BRAVELY AND BEAT THE CRUSADERS FAIR AND SQUARE!
The Franks/The Normans does not equal french, folks. Remember there was no France
Yes he was of Norman ancestry, and yes Normans were settled Vikings. But essentially so we’re the Saxons.
All kings after the Norman conquest spoke french and before long it was considered common to speak English, Edward II was the first king to speak English to his subjects when he confronted a mob when he was 14
Don’t forget that Normans and franks could be the same, but also not, depending on region and lineage. Also the English spoken at this time would’ve been a collection of at least 5 distinct languages, some unrelated to Latin. Learned men or kings would know English (at least if they were English), french, and Latin. France (as it is today) was at the time of the crusades, essentially the new Holy Roman Empire, since Barbarossa and Charlemagne.
TLDR; he was of Western European lineage. He was mainly a mix of angle, Saxon, Norse, Norman, Iberian/Frankish
As is the same today, it was his upbringing and culture that he practiced that was the issue, not if he was Norman or English or whatever. It’s way too reductionist.
Frank in this context just means Westerner. Even today, almost all Asian languages use the word 'Farangi' to describe Westerners.
Muslim and Jewish sources called all western knights “the Franks,” regardless of whether they’re German, Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian, Norman, Spanish, or English. Just like how we call all Middle Easterners at the time “Saracens” or “Arabs,” despite them being a contingent of Maghrebi, Berbers, Bedouins, Arabs, Egyptians, Kurds, Turks, and Persians. From the Middle Ages onwards, it was common for western writers to call all Muslims “Turks,” regardless of whether they’re European, Turkish, Persian, or Arab. Anyone showing a hint of Perso-Arabic culture was a Turk.
What song is in the beginning?
I know it’s small, but I wonder what kind of effect if any the authors comforting of Saladins misery when Acre was lost had on his actions afterwards.
Great video as always! I don't understand the downvotes.
White supremacists mad lmao
Yes indeed.
His name was Salahuddin Ayyubi.
Umayyad, bro?
@@RJStockton no
@@RJStockton lol
That is incorrect. His name was Yusuf ibn Ayyub. He was granted the title of Salahuddin which essentially means the light of faith or the righteousness of faith.
Best history Channel on yt
Only if you are a Muslim filled with conformation biases and are blind to the objective truth snd historical context...
read the sword and the scimitar...... to clear up any confusion
Ah yes my two favourite religious groups Muslims and Franks ☺️😊😊❤️
Franks are a religious group ?
@@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 Pagan European Berbers 😊
Lol, can we start calling the Crusades 'the counter-Muslim crusades'? I love how we've revised history to see the crusades as some *unique* horror when it was a backlash against equally bloody initial Muslim expansions.
Well said.
Welll, its just one-sided brutal massacre...
Point me any historian that found any record that muslim kills non-combatant
In fact, crusaders have killed Christians in holy land more than anything ever recorded in history
Hell no. No Muslim army during the umayyad or abbasid period massacred a whole city of non-muslims. We r not the same as savages like u human worshippers
Im not sure this is accurate. I think mostly the crusades were a way for the Church to control medieval politics and had nothing to do with Muslims at all.
U should see to videos of Dr, roy casagranda to understand the savage nature of the crusaders and the merciful nature of the Muslims.
This is the best channel!
While one sect reformed over time, the other continues to be just as barbaric as it used to be 1400 years ago
The Crusades videos are the best!
11:55 Bannerlord moment