Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Jihad

This blog is dedicated to discussing the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Dr. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. For more information visit: http://defenderofjerusalem.com or http://crusaderkingdoms.com

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Saturday, July 5, 2025

The Revival of Jihad and the Rise of Saladin

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Ironically, just when the crusader states started acting like secular powers with no particular religious raison d’ d’être, religious war, j...

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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Medieval Jihad

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The concept of jidad predated the crusades by more than four hundred years. Before one can begin to understand the crusades, it is neces...

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

A Crushing Defeat over Saladin - The Battle of Montgisard

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In in 1177, Salah-ad-Din (known in the West as Saladin) launched a full-scale invasion of the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was less ...

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Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Genesis of the Crusades

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The Crusader Kingdoms were founded in the wake of the First Crusade, so an understanding of the crusades and their genesis is essential to ...

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Helena P. Schrader: Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. Schrader is the author of twenty novels, twelve of which have earned one or more literary awards. Three of her books have also attained "best-seller" status on amazon, including #1 Best Seller in the categories Aviation History and Wartime Fiction.

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