42, No 1, January iggi The Crusade Against the Mongols (1241) by PETER JACKSON The great Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe in 1241-2 has
He led a renewed fight against the Crusaders in the Holy Land Salah al-Din quickly took back most of Palestine In 1187, his armies captured Jerusalem
He was powerful enough to assist the Crusaders and to attack the Muslims, having fought against the so-called Samiardi brothers, kings of Persia, in Media
sumed a military role at the request of German crusaders in 1198 4 62 Peter Jackson, 'The Crusade against the Mongols (1241)', Journal of
the role they played during the fight against the Mongols the military-religious orders and the crusaders, since the commonplaces of recent