Dr. John Rao says the the arrival of Islam into the Mediterranean world of the Seventh Century also aided in the shaping of Crusading concepts. Dr. John Rao shows in great detail that Islam is a terribly divided religion, but that its idea of Holy War does play a role within it, and one to which Christians were obliged to respond.
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