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Jiang argues that governing Jerusalem forced the Templars to work with Jews and Muslims, learn from them, and become more tolerant, rational, and cosmopolitan than the church bureaucracy.
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Religious Diversity
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He argues that Arabia became an unusually innovative religious refuge because people there could practice personal faith, communicate with God directly, and ask questions outside centralized authority.
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"The Catholic Church is an imperial bureaucracy. It only cares about maintaining orthodoxy over Europe. But the Knights Templars, they are bankers, they're traders...."
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"...because that's really the only way that you can manage this religious diversity, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So the Knights Templars..."
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"They either go to the Sassanid Empire or they go to the Arabian Desert. Many Jews go to the Arabian Desert. Why? Because in..."
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"Here are Christians who, even though they are very controversial, they all end up in the Arabian Desert in order to practice their faith...."
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"So the Arabian Desert, it is a hotbed of religious diversity and religious tolerance. You are allowed to practice any faith, and people respect..."
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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