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Introduction
Selections from the Qur’an
Al-Baladhuri on Early Muslim Conquests
The Pact of Omar
Warfare in Spain – Ibn Hayyan Muslim Historian from Córdoba
Matthew of Edessa on Seljuk Turks
St. Augustine of Hippo – Just War
Accounts of the Sack of Rome
Pope Gregory VII Calls for Assistance to Byzantium
Urban II’s Call to Crusade
Albert of Aachen – Peasants Crusade
Solomon bar Simson Chronicle – Massacre of the Jews
Anna Comnena – Excerpts from the Alexiad
William of Tyre – The Kingdom of Jerusalem
From the Rule of the Knights Templar
The Life of Saladin
The Battle of Hattin
Pre-Crusades Forgiveness of Sin for Fighting Wars
Appendix
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