Notes On Tears of Jerusalem

Notes: I was listening to some music, by a famous singer, about this story, can any guess the song? I find it interesting in light of what is happening now in the middle east, that If people would only learn from history, thus I liked the quote below attributed to Saladin Victory Is Changing the Hearts of Your Opponents by Gentleness and Kindness."- Saladin Croisades – French for Crusades Although some historians paint Saladin as a kind and compassionate man, he was afterall a man who attacked and conquered many peoples. Balian of Ibelin c. 1143 – 1193) was an important Frankish noble in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century. The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, which was held from November 18 to November 28, 1095 at Clermont, France. Pope Urban II's speech on November 27 was the starting point of the First Crusade. From then on, he ordered prayers in all the mosques of Syria and Egypt as the sovereign king and he issued at the Cairo mint gold coins bearing his official title—al-Malik an-Nasir Yusuf Ayyub, ala ghaya "the King Strong to Aid, Joseph son of Job; exalted be the standard." The Abbasid caliph in Baghdad graciously welcomed Saladin's assumption of power and declared him "Sultan of Egypt and Syria."