Source 10.6
The Crusades have long been seen as an arena of conflict between Christians and Muslims with violence and brutality on both sides. And yet at least on occasion it is possible to witness something more than this. Trade between Christians and Muslims persisted, and they rented property to one another. The mid-
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Source 10.6A
Usmah Ibn Munqidh
Christian Piety and Muslim Piety, Mid-
I paid a visit to the tomb of John [the Baptist in Damascus]. . . . After saying my prayers . . . I entered a church. Inside were about ten old men, their bare heads as white as combed cotton. They were facing east. . . .
Source: Francesco Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades, translated by E. J. Costello (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 50–
Source 10.6B
The Latins in the East
In this next passage, a French priest, Fulcher of Chartres, who accompanied the First Crusade to Jerusalem and lived there until 1127, wrote about Europeans who had settled permanently in one of the Crusader states.
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Fulcher of Chartres
The Latins in the East, Early Twelfth Century
Consider, I pray, and reflect how in our time God has transferred the West into the East, for we who were Occidentals now have been made Orientals. He who was a Roman or a Frank is now a Galilaean, or an inhabitant of Palestine. One who was a citizen of Rheims or of Chartres now has been made a citizen of Tyre or of Antioch. We have already forgotten the places of our birth; already they have become unknown to many of us, or, at least, are unmentioned. Some already possess here homes and servants which they have received through inheritance. Some have taken wives not merely of their own people, but Syrians, or Armenians, or even Saracens [Muslims] who have received the grace of baptism. . . .
Source: August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye-