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Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Presence in Bilād al-Shām: Intensifying Religious Fidelity within the Masses

Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Presence in Bilād al-Shām: Intensifying Religious Fidelity... Al-Masa ¯q, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2003 Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Presence in Bila ¯d al-Sha ¯m: Intensifying Religious Fidelity within the Masses DAPHNA EPHRAT and MUSTAFA DAUD KABHA In his ground-breaking book, Crusade and Mission, Benjamin Z. Kedar introduces evidence derived from different sources, Western and Eastern alike, indicating the conversion of Muslims to Christianity in the Crusader East as early as the First Crusade. This phenomenon, Kedar argues, should not be surprising, for wherever a Muslim population came under Christian yoke in the Mediterranean sphere, there were Muslims who became Christians. Furthermore, though christianising the subjected Muslims was not an overt goal of the Crusade, there were Crusaders in the Levant who sought out and tried to baptise the unbelievers. Added to the incidents of conversion were the more widespread phenomena of Frankish–Muslim alliances: cooperation between Muslims and Crusaders, and even social contacts between leaders of the two conflicting sides. No matter how random the crossing or blurring of religious boundaries were, they must have aroused the fear of those who considered themselves guardians of the “true” religion, a fear of the erosion of the unity of the Islamic community (the umma) and the weakening http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Al-Masa ¯q, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2003 Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Presence in Bila ¯d al-Sha ¯m: Intensifying Religious Fidelity within the Masses DAPHNA EPHRAT and MUSTAFA DAUD KABHA In his ground-breaking book, Crusade and Mission, Benjamin Z. Kedar introduces evidence derived from different sources, Western and Eastern alike, indicating the conversion of Muslims to Christianity in the Crusader East as early as the First Crusade. This phenomenon, Kedar argues, should...
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Al-Masa ¯q, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2003 Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Presence in Bila ¯d al-Sha ¯m: Intensifying Religious Fidelity within the Masses DAPHNA EPHRAT and MUSTAFA DAUD KABHA In his ground-breaking book, Crusade and Mission, Benjamin Z. Kedar introduces evidence derived from different sources, Western and Eastern alike, indicating the conversion of Muslims to Christianity in the Crusader East as early as the First Crusade. This phenomenon, Kedar argues, should not be surprising, for wherever a Muslim population came under Christian yoke in the Mediterranean sphere, there were Muslims who became Christians. Furthermore, though christianising the subjected Muslims was not an overt goal of the Crusade, there were Crusaders in the Levant who sought out and tried to baptise the unbelievers. Added to the incidents of conversion were the more widespread phenomena of Frankish–Muslim alliances: cooperation between Muslims and Crusaders, and even social contacts between leaders of the two conflicting sides. No matter how random the crossing or blurring of religious boundaries were, they must have aroused the fear of those who considered themselves guardians of the “true” religion, a fear of the erosion of the unity of the Islamic community (the umma) and the weakening

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