Knights Templar: A Secret History (Dark Osprey) by Davis Graeme

Author:Davis, Graeme [Davis, Graeme]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: The Knights Templar: A Secret History
ISBN: 9781472806475
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Muslim Sympathies

Based on the spurious Baphomet–Mohammed link, the Templars’ known dealings with the Assassins, and other factors, it has been suggested that the Templars were secret Muslims, or Muslim sympathizers, who had conspired to place the Holy Land back in Muslim hands. There were some who blamed the Order for the loss of the Holy Land after the disasters of the Second Crusade, and not without reason. It was the Templar Grand Master Gerard de Ridefort, by all accounts, who urged the disastrous attack at Hattin that precipitated the almost complete collapse of the Crusader states.

At the time of the Templar trials, almost any interest in eastern forms of Christianity could be interpreted in Europe as a sympathy with Islam. Although the question of Gnostic and other influences remains unresolved, there is no persuasive evidence that the Order embraced Islam in any way.

Other commentators have seized upon the Templar’s dealings with the Assassins and their easy relationship with their Jewish and Muslim neighbors in Outremer to suggest that they had become more familiar with Jews and Muslims than was seemly for good Christians. Fouchet’s work points to a deliberate plan to unite all the religions of the Middle East in a pan-Abrahamic religion independent of both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

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