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In the year 1143 CE, Nuruddin Zenghi was attempting to recapture, recapture what?

Al-Quds, Masjad al-Aqsa, because it was in the hands of the Salabian, the crusaders.

And there was a fear amongst the crusaders that he might be successful. This fear trickled all the way to Europe.

And one of the senior leaders of the church in France, His name was Peter the Venerable. He was an abbot, one of the senior members of the church, not quite a bishop underneath the bishop. And he's very well known in history. He was an intellectual. He was a thinker. He was a writer. He was an activist. He's well known. Peter the venerable said, we need to do something.

We cannot let the Muslims reconquer Quds.

What is he going to do in France?

He said, we need to start converting the Muslims

so that they no longer pose a threat to us we must convert the people in

that region the Palestine Muslims and Palestine we must make them into Christian but how

will we do this well the first thing he said we need to know what they believe so

he decided we must first and foremost study what Islam is.

This is the first attempt in human history from the Western world to try to study Islam

semi-seriously, a little bit of intellectual, a little bit of thought.

And so where is he going to go?

He's in France.

Nobody speaks Arabic in France.

What's he going to do?

He traveled to Andalus.

Andalus at this time was completely controlled by the Muslims.

This is now 1143, not just Granada you have

Kurthuba you have Valencia you have Sevilla civil you have the entire

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