Since I haven't yet read your article on this subject, I'm not sure exactly what types of articles you are looking for.  There is an interesting article by Al-Jazeera America on the subject of the Crusader language/thought line in today's world (both Muslim and Christian).  I found a number of interesting articles scattered throughout the database JSTOR; there a number of different journals with one angle or another of this particular subject. There was a magnificent study of global Fundamentalisms published by University of Chicago that deals, in part, with the appropriation or misappropriation of Crusader thought in the struggle of the "Christian" West vs. the "Muslim" Middle East. Most of the material I have found concerns the growing polarization that is often expressed in Crusader terminology.  I am VERY interested in this subject; one of my favorite subjects is the Crusades, particularly the role of Saladin and the First and Third Crusades for the seizure of Jerusalem. I teach World Literature/Culture and one of the major portions of that class involves the Crusades--both sides, an aspect that has been new to nearly every student I've had. I look forward to reading your article soon.

I attached the link to the Al Jazeera article; hope the link works.

Though I have not come across such article(s) that directly touches the subject you raised; however, the plethora of new books on the subject as a whole itself reveals that the Crusade is still relevant today. Karen Armstrong's the Holy war is a good piece dealing the impact of the crusades on today's world. I am of the opinion that the present geopolitical upheavals in the MENA region are but  neo-crusades supported by the dictators of the region. I also believe, in future, the crusade topic will again emerge and will attract  a renewed scholarship focussing especially the cultural encounters during the crusades. This aspect has been largely ignored by the historians. In a nutshell, two aspects: military as well as mutual relationship of the crusades will go side by side.

islands, which served as bases for annual seaborne attacks on Constantinople

from 674 to 678. With the aid of Greek fire Constantinople was successfully

defended, and the Arab advance was checked for the first time. Westward across

North Africa, however, the Umayyad armies had much greater success. The

Berbers, a warlike nomadic people inhabiting the land between the

Mediterranean and the Sahara, resisted stubbornly but eventually converted to

Islam. The next logical expansion for Islam was across the Strait of Gibraltar

into the weak kingdom of the Visigoths in Spain. The governor of Muslim North

Africa sent his general, Tarik, and an army across the Strait into Spain in

711. Seven years later the kingdom of the Visigoths completely crumbled. The

Muslims advanced across the Pyrenees and gained a strong foothold in southwest

France, where they carried out a major raid to explore the possibility of a

further northward advance. However, they were defeated by Charles Martel near

Tours in 732, in a battle which, together with their defeat by the Byzantine

emperor Leo III in 718, proved decisive in halting their northward expansion

into Europe. Meanwhile the Muslims had been expanding eastward into Central

Asia, and by the eighth century they could claim lands as far as Turkestan and

the Indus valley."http://history-world.org/islam4.htm

Certainly, the crusaders were, at times, guilty of some terrible atrocities.  But so, I'm sure, were the Muslims at times in their early wars of conquest.

Fear of the 'other' underlies and undermines the rhetoric of the modern debate on both sides.  And in this both the words 'crusade' and 'jihad' are regularly misused.

And fear can only be addressed through a willingness to talk and listen.  And to learn from history in full, not just selected bits of history.

Dear Tamer,

I am attaching the link to University of Chicago's entire series of books that span about a decade right now. I have used them repeatedly especially while working on the manuscript "Evangelism" that is posted in Research Gate. The series is quite readable and scholarly.  I am also reading through the links you sent on ancient Arabic writing and the Qur'an.  I had no idea so much was available in English. I will be back in touch shortly because I would appreciate some scholarly input to an issue about Wahhabism--I have a huge scholarly divide between two writers, one whom I know well and the other about whom I know much less.  But you can read the Arabic titles and sources and perhaps advise me a bit.  I'll send you the names and links shortly.  I have to prepare some study guides for some of my students whose finals start on Monday.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/FP.html