>>17268930
>moslems live by the reflective light of Europe. If Europeans don't dredge something up from moslem history first, it likely won't find its way into an Arab's mind.
Arabs and Westerners push the same distorted or selective talking points about history. That's by design.

>>17268899
>Why aren't he and qutuz as popular as salahuddin? They defeated both the crusaders and mongols, much more impressive than anything salahuddin did.

Great question. Most common people's understanding of history is largely reduced to memes and whatever is pushed via institutional education. Unfortunately, in the Muslim World the institutional education is scarce in itself and so all history is reduced to memes.

The reason Salah ad-Deen Ayyubi is popular is because Western writers romanticized him. They did not romanticize Nur ad-Deen Zengi, nor Rukn ad-Deen Baibars after him. They make up the top three most important Muslim leaders or Ghazis that defeated the Crusaders.

It was Nur ad-Deen Zengi that SENT Shirkuh and his nephew Saladin to Egypt to back Fatimid vizier Shawar in a power struggle. Rukn ad-Deen Baibars defeated both the Crusades and the Ilkhanate. Do you notice how the emphasis on the discourse around Saladin is exclusively on his fight against the Crusaders and liberating Jerusalem? This is because that's what's most relevant to the Christian West.

To me, Saladin's biggest achievement was his strategic takeover of Fatimid Egypt from the Isma'ili Shia and that too with minimal violence. Consequently, Isma'ilism was wiped out from Egypt and surrounding regions and stopped being the second biggest sect of Islam, which are today Ithna'ashari (Twelvers). His liberation of Jerusalem is only his second-most impressive. Even though he defeated the Crusaders as a whole, they did launch the Third Crusade before Saladin's death that managed to re-take territory outside Jerusalem albeit it was much smaller than what they held from the Second Crusade.

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