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From the Mongol side, there were also concerns as to just how much clout the Franks could have brought to bear, [153] especially as there was decreased interest in Europe in pursuing the Crusades. [151] Court historians of Mongol Persia made no mention whatsoever of the communications between the Ilkhans and the Christian West, and barely ...
Mongol raids into Palestine took place towards the end of the Crusades, following the temporarily successful Mongol invasions of Syria, primarily in 1260 and 1300. Following each of these invasions, there existed a period of a few months during which the Mongols were able to launch raids southward into Palestine , reaching as far as Gaza .
The Mongols raided eastern Austria and southern Moravia again in December 1241 and January 1242. A century later in 1340 they raided the March of Brandenburg. Anti-Mongol crusades were preached within the Empire's borders several times between these two raids, and even as late as 1351.
A Crusade Preached against the Mongols in Syria (1260). After the Mongol takeover of Aleppo in 1260, the Franks in the kingdom called on Alexander IV and Charles I of Anjou for help. The pope issued the bull Audiat orbis calling for a crusade against the Mongols and excommunicating Bohemond VI of Antioch for cooperating
The Mamluks under Baibars (yellow) fought off the Franks and the Mongols during the Ninth Crusade. The second Mongol invasion of Syria took place in October 1271, when 10,000 Mongols led by general Samagar and Seljuk auxiliaries moved southwards from Rûm and captured Aleppo; however they retreated back beyond the Euphrates when the Mamluk ...
Pope Gregory IX sanctioned a small Crusade against the Mongols in mid-1241. The Papacy had rejected the pleas of Georgia in favor of launching crusades in Iberia and the Middle East, as well as preaching a Crusade against Kievan Rus in 1238 for refusing to join his earlier Balkan Crusade.
However, the Sicilian question overshadowed calls for a new Crusade, and Edward I of England was too entangled by troubles at home. [12] Decades of communications between the Europeans and the Mongols failed to secure a meaningful Franco-Mongol alliance. [13] [14]
The Azzam Pasha quotation was part of a statement made by Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, the Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1945 to 1952, in which he declared in 1947 that, were a war to take place with the proposed establishment of a Jewish state, it would lead to "a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades."