Islam vs Christendom

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As two of humanity's great religions, Islam and Christianity have shaped much of the world's history. Empires across the globe have risen and fallen under their influence, and there have been many occasions for them to go head-to-head on the battlefield. So what have been some of the greatest military clashes between Islam and Christianity? Dan is joined by Sir Simon Mayall, a former Middle East Senior Adviser at the UK Ministry of Defence, to discuss three key clashes; the Siege of Jerusalem in 1099, the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the Great Siege of Malta in 1565.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. We're talking about some of the greatest
0:05.5	Christian Muslim clashes in military history on the podcast today from the Crusades, the
0:13.4	great battles of the 15th and 16th century, as the Ottoman Caliphs pushed ever closer
0:19.2	to Europe and into the Mediterranean. I've got an expert on the podcast left and in general
0:24.0	Sir Simon Mail. He is a retired British Army officer and of his last jobs in the British
0:29.4	military, he was the Middle East advisor at the Ministry of Defence. He's an academic,
0:33.9	he studied the history of the Arab world in detail, Oxford and other places and he's written
0:39.2	a fantastic book about his experiences in the Middle East and the Gulf for now where
0:44.8	called a soldier in the sand, a personal history of the modern Middle East, go and check
0:50.2	it out to everybody. In the sense of the podcast, we're talking about three seages in the
0:53.8	three great seages that defined the course of Islam's relationship with the West. The
0:59.2	first was the successful siege of Jerusalem by the first Crusaders, the capture of Jerusalem,
1:05.7	the second is the fall of Constantinople, the great siege by Mechmed, that finally extinguished
1:12.5	the Eastern Roman Empire and the last one is the great siege of Malta. When a small but
1:18.6	highly committed force of Christian knights, Hellback Age, Iganthic, Ottoman and Vibius
1:24.6	force, three great seages and one great historian tell me all about them. Enjoy.
1:48.9	Simon, thank you very much for coming on the podcast.
1:51.6	Will Delight. Well, we are talking about some of the Mechmed, Iganthic clashes in the
1:58.9	fraught relationship between Islam and Christianity. Where do you think we should start? Do you
2:03.2	think that the first crusade, the siege of Jerusalem, the Christian attempt to capture
2:07.4	the Holy Land? Is that the best place to start? I think it's so seminal that it is a good
2:11.7	one to start as Jerusalem is such a pivotal religious site, obviously, for the Jews and
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