Assignment:
You are asked to write a 5 pages (double-spaced) paper that will address the following question:
Discuss Crusader successes in a fragmented Muslim world and Muslim strategies to restore unity and launch the counter-Crusade.
Your paper should be based on the reading assignments for weeks 10, 11, 14 and on part 3 of the documentary Crusades (released in 1995 and directed by Terry Jones), titled "Jihad" (available at this address: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x733701).
Those assignments are mandatory and you will be expected to refer to them extensively and as specifically as possible in your paper.
To get a much deeper sense of the context and of the subject, you are strongly encouraged to also watch part 1 ("Pilgrims in Arms":
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x52n8n7) and 2 ("Jerusalem":
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18654k) of the documentary.
Furthermore, those are the only sources to be utilized for this assignment. No outside sources are permitted!
Antoine Borrut
Your paper MUST include a bibliography of the works you used (not counted in the 5 pages), following the Chicago Manual of Style (available at this address:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html)
University policies:
The University has approved a Code of Academic Integrity which prohibits students from cheating on exams, plagiarizing papers, submitting the same paper for credit in two courses without authorization, buying papers, submitting fraudulent documents, and forging signatures. Plagiarism policy: all quotations taken from other authors, including from the Internet, must be indicated by quotation marks and referenced (on plagiarism please the "Avoiding Plagiarism.pdf" document in the "Files" section on ELMS). Paraphrasing must be referenced as well. The following University of Maryland Honor Pledge has been proposed by the Council and approved by the University Senate:
"I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this examination (or assignment)". This pledge should be handwritten and signed on the front page of all papers, projects or other academic assignments submitted for evaluation in this course.
Writing Center:
If you need help in the process of redaction or if you just are eager to improve your writing, contact the Writing Center (https://www.english.umd.edu/academics/writingcenter).