What was the relationship between Muslims and Christians in Spain in the middle ages?

Answer 1

They permanently turned the tables.

The crusades followed 400 years of Islamic conquest, in which 2/3 of the traditional Christian territories were taken over by Muslim rulers. The Christians were terrified, and the Muslims were confident of taking over the whole of Christendom eventually.

In the 200 years of crusading, the Christians won some of the battles. They realised that it was not inevitable that Islam would take over the world, and they had a decent chance of driving back the aggressor. The Muslims also became somewhat frightened of the Christians, as they realised that their victory was not certain.

By the time the crusades ended, there was a mutual bitterness between the two faiths. Each side exaggerated the cruelties inflicted by the other and taught their children that the other group was murderous, dangerous, untrustworthy, etc.

The events of the next 800 years did little to allay anyone's suspicions. The Spaniards finally drove the Muslims out of Spain by about 1500, by which time the Muslims had lived there so long that they felt it was their home and that the Spanish bloodbath was completely unjustified. The Muslims made further efforts to conquer parts of Europe; although they were unsuccessful, the Europeans inferred they had a permanent conquest agenda.

Answer 2

Since the time of Constantine, Christians had gone on pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Even though Moslems had ruled Jerusalem since 638, Christians were still allowed to visit the city. By the 11th century, however, the situation had changed. Just as the number and frequency of pilgrimages to Jerusalem was at new peaks, the Seljuk Turks took over control of Jerusalem and prevented pilgrimages.

Answer

Not a great deal is written about the thoughts of the Muslims during the Crusades, but the evidence is that they continued to treat them with tolerance. There was a remnant population of Jews and Christians who had never converted to Islam, and their descendants continue to live in the Middle East.

When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the order was to slaughter all the Muslim inhabitants. Since it would be difficult to distinguish Muslims from Jews and Christians, the Crusaders were told to kill them all, and let God be the judge in heaven.

When the Muslim leader, Saladin, recaptured Jerusalem he ordered that the Christians, who had come to live in Jerusalem, should be spared.

Answer 3

" . . . The Crusades brought about results of which the popes had never dreamed, and which were perhaps the most, important of all. They re-established traffic between the East and West, which, after having been suspended for several centuries, was then resumed with even greater energy; they were the means of bringing from the depths of their respective provinces and introducing into the most civilized Asiatic countries Western knights, to whom a new world was thus revealed, and who returned to their native land filled with novel ideas... If, indeed, the Christian civilization of Europe has become universal culture, in the highest sense, the glory redounds, in no small measure, to the Crusades.". . . Source: Crusades in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966, Vol. IV, p. 508.

Answer 4

they meet each other in Granada when the Spanish Christan was taking over Granada and the emperor are Muslim Spain almost got assented so he went to see the Christan king and hope i helped ya

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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