Monday, August 17, 2026

The Crusades - Dr. Roy Casagranda

The Crusades - Part 2


Ibn al-Khashshab {(son of the wood) Shi'a Qazi} - 05:10

- Arab world - 06:30

- Minority - 07:35

Roman - Italian.

Nazi - German.

Japanese - Japanese.

- Egyptian Fatimid dynasty - 09:40

- Syria - 10:00

πŸ‘‘- Ghaznavids.

πŸ‘‘- Kakuyids (Shi'a).

πŸ‘‘- Buyids (Shi'a).

πŸ—½- Saljiks - 10:25 (1037 AD). 

πŸ—½- Saljuk started from Khurasan - 10:30

︻デ═δΈ€- Crusaders arrive 1098 - 11:10 δΈ€═デ︻

πŸ—½- Saljiks first contact in 61 years - 11:15

πŸ—½- Saljuk Sultan, Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar) - 11:55

- Attacks Khalifa to shame him.

⚔ - Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar)'s army finds that...

πŸ—‘- Aleppo has an army.

πŸ—‘- Damascus has an army.

πŸ—‘- Jerusalem has an army.

πŸ—‘- Antioch has an army. - 12:45

πŸ”™Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar)'s army returned back - 13:20

⚜Rizwan (Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan), Leader of Aleppo - 13:50

⚜Duqaq (Shams al-Muluk Duqaq), Rizwan's brother the Leader of Damascus - 13:55

πŸ› - Fatimid Khalifa al-Mustansir (al-Mustansir Billah) selected Nizar (Nizar ibn al-Mustansir) but Musta'li (Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir) got elected - 14:25

πŸ‘Ί- al-Afdal Shahanshah the Wazir pulling the strings - 15:05

- Musta'li (Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir) + al-Afdal Shahanshah defeat Nizar (Nizar ibn al-Mustansir) army. Capture Nizar - 15:32

- Nizar got killed by trapping into a confinement. Slowly dehydrated & starved to death - 15:36

- That creates the Nizari sect of the Isma'ilis - 15:45

Hasan al-Saba'h - 16:00 

- Hashshashin → Assassins (Order of Assassins) - 16:35

⚜- Rizwan (Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan) was partially controlled by the Hashshashins - 16:50 

πŸ—½- Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar) tries again by sending an army led by Mawdud (Sharaf al-Dawla Mawdud ibn Ahmad) - 17:50

⚜- Duqaq (Shams al-Muluk Duqaq) dies & his top general, Toghtekin (Zahir al-Din Toghtekin) displaces his two sons & takes over - 18:00 

⚔ - Mawdud (Sharaf al-Dawla Mawdud ibn Ahmad) goes to Damascus & was killed by stabbing to death - 18:20

πŸ”™- Saljk army goes back again - 18:55

- Rizwan's son Alp Arsalan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) takes over after his death - 19:35

Ibn al-Khashshab (son of the wood) makes Alp Arsalan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) for targeted killing - 20:35

- Alp Arslan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) goes 2 years long murder scheme - 20:20

⚔️- The slave, Lu'lu {(Lu'lu' al-Yaya) Pearl} stabbed Alp Arslan (Alp Arslan al-Akhras) to death - 21:30

⚔️- Hashshashin stabbed Lu'lu {(Lu'lu' al-Yaya) to death - 22:00

Ibn al-Khashab {(son of the wood) Shi'a Qazi} became the defacto leader (1117 A.D) - 22:00 

Ibn al-Khashshab {(son of the wood) Shi'a Qazi} makes Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) to take over the city (Leader shopping) - 23:00 

- Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) was ruling Mardin in Iraq (1118 A.D.) - 23:20 

- Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) defeats the Crusaders & drives them off - 23:45

- Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) dies in liver failure in 3 years for heavy drinking - 24:40


- 20 days time for the the King of Jerusalem, Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) - 25:05


- Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) decides to attack Egypt - 25:15

- 500 soldiers - 25:35


πŸ’¨πŸ”™- Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) takes a bath in the river Neil & Fatemid retreats - 25:50πŸ’¨


🀯Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) dies in Bilharzia (Schistosomiasis) - 26:05


- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) - 27:10


- Baldwin-I (Baldwin I of Jerusalem) created the County of Edessa, Syrian portion in Turkeiye - 27:20

- Turkish genocide of Armenia - 28:00

- Edessa = Şanlıurfa - 28:05


- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) replaces himself with the guy name Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) - 28:20

 - Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) was replaced by Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) his cousin - 29:50 

 - Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) fights Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) & captures him - 30:05    


- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) on the way to rescue Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) gets engages in falconry πŸ•Š️ - 30:20

 - Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) shows up with his army & captures him - 30:50

🎈- The guy in charge in Aleppo has physical possession of the King of Jerusalem - 31:00

🎈 - The Count of Edessa just taken out 2 of the 4 crusader leaders - 31:10

 1125 A.D. The Crusaders were here for 27 years - 31:30 

- The Crusaders have captured all the cities on the Syrian-Palestinian coast except two. They were missing Ascalon (Fatimid) - 31:40 

- The Crusaders took an army to take Ascalon from the Fatimid Dynasty at 1111 A.D - 31:50

πŸ’¨- They surrounded the town to put it under siege but the ruler panicked & surrendered - 32:00πŸ’¨

 - Leader of Ascalon gives ransom to be free - 32:25

- People killed the Leader of Ascalon & his guard. They go over to the Citadel & murdered the Crusaders to liberate the city - 32:30

- The Crusader tried to attack Tyre, Lebanon. It was an island. Alexander the Great didn't have a navy to contest the Persian navy. So he made a causeway to connect it with the mainland which is now a peninsula. The Crusaders build a tower & tried to capture it with a battering ram. - 32:40

- Arabs took Oil & fecal matter to dump on Crusaders then light it on fire. The tower went to inferno. The Crusaders give up & leave - 33:50

- 13 years later. The Venetians show up with their navy. Demanded ONE QUARTER of everything - 34:30

- Tyre, Lebanon the island in the Mediterranean didn't have fresh water supply underneath. There were water stored in Cistern. If the city goes under siege, they've boats in the water to to fetch fresh water - 37:05 

- People of Tyre, Lebanon called Balak - 38:00

- Manbij,  Northern Syria goes to rebellion - 38:20

- Balak wanted to end the rebellion of Manbij, Northern Syria but a stray arrow hits him by the clavicle & sinks in very deep. He pulls it out. He tells his men, "Islam was just struck a terrible blow." Falls over dead! - 38:50

- Timurtash (Ala ud-Din Timurtash) is Ilghazi's (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) son. Timurtash is just 19 years old. He has two things his mind which were not in Aleppo. It's sex & alcohol. That's all he cares about. He hates Aleppo & wants to get out as fast as he can - 39:25 

- Timurtash (Ala ud-Din Timurtash) releases Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) & Joscelin (Joscelin I of Edessa) with money - 40:15 

- Timurtash (Ala ud-Din Timurtash) goes back to Mardin, Turkiye - 40:45 


- Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem), "I'm gonna take Aleppo!" - 40:45

Ibn al-Khashshab (son of the wood) calls al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) {Mosul, Iraq (Leadership shopping)} - 41:40

- al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) saves the city - 41:50

- Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) kill Ibn al-Khashshab - 42:00πŸ•΅πŸ»‍♀️

- Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) kill al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) in following few months - 42:10πŸ•΅πŸ»‍♀️

 No Ibn al-Khashshab = No leader of Aleppo - 42:50 πŸ”†πŸ”†πŸ”†

- Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) stats to take over Damascus - 43:15πŸ•΅πŸ»‍♀️

 - Toghtekin (Zahir al-Din Toghtekin) is getting old - 43:30

- Buri (Taj al-Muluk Buri), Toghtekin (Zahir al-Din Toghtekin)'s son takes over. Buri (Taj al-Muluk Buri) is the puppet of Hashshashin - 43:40

- Buri (Taj al-Muluk Buri), Toghtekin (Zahir al-Din Toghtekin)'s son takes over after Toghtekin's death. Buri finds out that Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) are planning to turn the city (Damascus) over to Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem). They're just gonna surrender it. They've actually already set it up. They sent the message to Jerusalem saying, "We're ready to turn the city over to you. Come & get it!"

& the reason the Hashshashin (Order of Assassins) are doing this is because they believe; their religious belief is that...

THE SHI'AS ARE IN SIN BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR GUY [Nizar's (Nizar ibn al-Mustansir)] THEY THOUGHT SHOULD TAKE OVER &

THE SUNNIES ARE JUST AWEFUL BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT SHI'A.

⇒& SO, THE ONLY WAY TO CORRECT THIS, IS TO LET THE CHRISTIANS PUNISH THEM!

⇒SO, THEY'RE GONNA GIVE THE CRUSADERS DAMASCUS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS DIVINE PUNISHMENT MANIFEST THROUGH THEM! - 44:10

- Buri (Taj al-Muluk Buri) finds out, massacres the Hashshashin & saves the city of Damascus from the Crusaders - 45:55 

- Aleppo leader shopping - 45:40

πŸ‘‰- Ilghazi (Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq) was ruling Mardin in Iraq (1118 A.D.) - 23:20 

πŸ‘‰- Balak (Nur al-Dawla Belek bin Bahram Ghazi) Ilghazi's cousin - 29:50 

πŸ‘‰- al-Bursuqi (Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi) (Mosul, Iraq) - 41:40

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πŸ‘‰- They finally come up with Imad al-Din Zengi (al-Malik al-Mansur Abu al-Mudhaffar Imad al-Din Zengi bin Aq Sunqur al-Hajib bin Abdullah), the atabeg of Mosul, Iraq - 46:15



- John Adams, the revolutionary war hero's opening move is defending successfully the British soldiers from Boston Massacre in the courtroom. - 46:55


- The opening move of Imad al-Din Zengi is, the Khalifa Musta'li (Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mustansirin Baghdad decides that he doesn't just wanna be a symbolic figure anymore. He wants to have a real power at a moment when the Saljuk Saltanat is being transferred over.

Saljuk Sultan, Muhammad-I (Muhammad I Tapar) has died & replaced. & in the process the Khalifa decides that this is his chance to make a move.

The army that shows up to defeat the Khalifa was Zengi's army.

Saljuk Sultan owes him because he puts down the Khalifa & his army. - 47:10


- The ruler of Antioch, Bohemond-II (Bohemond II of Antioch) died & Baldwin-II (Baldwin II of Jerusalem) decided to take over Antioch - 49:10


- Bohemond-I, then Roger of Salerno then Bohemond-II (Bohemond II of Antioch). They were Normand or Vikings from Sicily, Italy. They were French speaking Vikings - 49:30