المجتمع الصليبي في بلاد الشام منذ الحملة الصليبية الأولى حتى فتح بيت المقدس (491-583 هـ، 1096-1187 م)‎

Abstract EN

The crusader invasion of the Levant was aimed from the beginning to implant the roots of a crusader on Islamic countries, and to seize the sanctities in them, and he made him the owner of the land under the pretext of liberating the holy sepulcher and the eastern Christians from the hands of the Muslims, however, that society that arose on the land of the Levant was a strange society on this land in the midst of an Islamic society that worked hard on its wording.

a large number of different European nationalities and different classes participated in the formation of this society, along with the local population, as French formed the dominant element in this crusader society until the Arabs were called “the franks” as an expression for all the crusaders, in addition to the Italian who inhabited the Levantine coasts and took advantage of the crusades to achieve their commercial gains, along with the Normans, Germans and English, this community also included various groups of the local population, headed by the (Maronites, the Armenians, the Syriacs and the Greek orthodox) who thought that the coming of the crusaders would raise their status, however, with them they filled the void in the profession that they refused to perform, categorizing them as inferior to them, and even recruiting them in the first ranks of the crusader armies, except that they were better off than the Muslims and the Jews within the crusader society until the conquest of Salah al-din came to Jerusalem, so they tasted honor after the humiliation.