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Antoine Borrut HIST120/RELS120

PAPER

Due Date: 11/25/2019 (Week 14)

NB: Paper is due on Thursday 11/25 in lecture. Any submission after the lecture (i.e.,

even on the same day) will be considered as a late submission.

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 HIST120/RELS120

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:

http://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

(http://www.english.umd.edu/academics/writingcenter).