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Islam and Christianity: Crusades "There can be little doubt that the crusades slowed the advance of Islam, although how much is an open question. The presence of the crusader states in the Near East for almost two centuries certainly destabilized Muslim power, and therefore hindered unification into a single Islamic state. Even the crusades that failed or did not materialize forced Muslim powers to divert resources from conquest to their own defense. At the very least, then, the crusades bought western Europe some time. Judging by the number of occasions it narrowly escaped Turkish invasion in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, Europe had need of that tim" (Thomas Madden).

	Document	published	level
	The Impact of the Crusades - Thomas F. MADDEN	08/08/2007	*
	The real history of the Crusades - Thomas F. MADDEN	24/03/2006	*
	Understanding the Crusades - Marian T. HORVAT	04/06/2006	*
	3 Documents found		* affordable to everyone ** for close examination *** specialty

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Thomas F. MADDEN, The New Concise History of the Crusades, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham (Maryland) 2005.