Destiny Disrupted

136 DESTINY DISRUPTED ignored them; officials treated them rudely; and petty indignities of every sort were piled upon them. Whe ...

HAVOC 137 Enter the pilgrims, stage left, complaining of the indignities visited upon them by heathens in the Holy Lands. Finall ...

138 DESTINY DISRUPTED route they seemed to be taking, laid an ambush, and smashed them like so many ants, killing many, capturin ...

HAVOC 139 city after city. When Antioch fell, the knights took vengeance for the city's resistance with some indiscriminate kill ...

140 DESTINY DISRUPTED and wishing the Crusaders every success! Egypt had long been locked in a struggle with both the Seljuks an ...

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142 DESTINY DISRUPTED were Franj knights on loan from King Baldwin of Edessa, who had a ri- valry going with Tancred.^5 And this ...

HAVOC 143 During the first century of the Franj invasions, every time the Muslims began moving toward unity, the Assassins murde ...

144 DESTINY DISRUPTED was the Turkish general Zangi, who governed Mosul, then took Aleppo, and then absorbed many other cities i ...

HAVOC 145 In 1163, Nuruddin sent Saladin's uncle off to conquer Egypt, just to keep it out of Franj hands, and the general took ...

146 DESTINY DISRUPTED with men of might. No one could intimidate him, yet he never stooped to intimidating anyone over whom he h ...

HAVOC 147 leave could take their property and depart, Christians who wanted to stay could do so and practice their religion unmo ...

148 DESTINY DISRUPTED Historians traditionally count eight Crusades over the course of two hundred years, but really there was a ...

HAVOC 149 In areas under attack, Muslims did, of course, feel threatened by the Franj, even horrified by them, but they didn't s ...

150 DESTINY DISRUPTED ASSAULT FROM THE EAST The Mongols originated in the steppes of Central Asia, a vast treeless grass- land w ...

HAVOC 151 Chengez's father was a chieftain among the Mongols but was murdered when Chengez was nine. His supporters drifted away ...

152 DESTINY DISRUPTED this region, one could offer a man no more grievous insult than to pluck out his beard. Alaudin knew this ...

HAVOC 153 ancients as "the Mother of Cities," dumping its library into the Oxus River, hundreds of thousands of handwritten volu ...

154 DESTINY DISRUPTED The Mongol Invasions of the Islamic World horrors, roughly the same statistics for the casualties. The two ...

HAVOC 155 was divided among his various sons and grandsons, who continued the holocaust. The core of the Muslim world fell into ...