Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why was the Muslim world so divided on the eve of the crusades?
- Religious Schism
Anmerkungen:
- Schism- a division of people, usually belonging to an organisation (in this case Islam: Shia and Sunni)
- The Sunni Seljuq against the Shi'ite Fatimids of Cario
- Battleground at Syria and Palestine
- Two powers made it unthinkable to form a united font against the crusaders.
- Death of Islamic Leaders
- 1092- Sultan of the Seljuq empire, Malikshah and his vizier, Nizam al-Mulk.
- 1094- Fatimid caliph of Egypt, al-Mstansir
(ruled for 58 years) and his vizie, Badr
al-JAmali.
- 1094- Abbasid Sunni Caliph al-Muqtadi
Died.
- The successoion death of both the Suljuq and Fatimid
empires occurring at the same time had a destabilizing
effect on the Islamic world.
- The Sunni and Shi'ite both had given away to division and increased anarchy.
- Suljuq Disunity
- Death of Nizam al-Mulk and Malikshah in 1092 - The Suljuq world
divided
- Military conflict lasted until 1105
- Conflict between the two sons of Malikshah,
Muhammad and Barkyaruq fought out in
western Iraq
- They used up most of the military
resources by this conflict
- Two sons had Zero interest in
the Levant and left Jerusalem
to its fate
- Aftermath of Manzikert
- Seljuq Sultan Alp Arslan allows independency to
Turkish leaders to carve out their own territories.
- Tribes showed little unity from the beginning.
- 2
- Kilij Arslan
- He had been hostage since 1086
and released at 1092; Death of
Malikshah
- He re- founded the Sultanate of Rum
after the death of Malikshah
- He was more interested in
his heritage in the East: In
this process, his father
Suleyman 's lands.
- The individual tribes had started vying
with each other to establish their own
independence
- Problems in Egypt
- Syria and Palestine on the eve of crusade