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From my casual reading about the Crusading Era, it seems the Muslim factions can be broken down as such:
Saracens - Sunni Arabs from various places like Damscus, Baghdad, etc. Fought in basically all the Crusades
Turks - the guys who started it all by ****ing around with Constantinople
Egyptians - Defeated the 5th Crusade on the banks of the Nile. Also did a lot of political maneuvering during the rest of that time period.
Africans - I'd really like to know more about this. I've come across sparse references to "Nubian infantry" but don't know much more.
So my big question is, what was Persia doing during this 200-year period? It might just be the limitations of my reading, but for a major Muslim power they don't really seem to do very much. Did the Persians see the Crusades as a purely Sunni problem, or were there internal factors that kept them from taking part?
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