Frank Gelli

Twelver Shiism, and the figure of the Imam al-Mahdi.

Muhammad: “The blood of the martyr is closer to God than the ink of the scholars or the prayers of the pious.” Then he mentioned St Bernard of Clairvaux, the monk who had composed the rule of the Order of the Knight Templars.

‘The true crusader aim was paradise, not just a piece of rocky terrain. Jerusalem did not mean the arid, insignificant settlement on Mount Zion.