The article is devoted to the new trends in modern Arabic historiography of the Crusades, in which ideological work involving the ideas of Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism is gradually giving way to a truly scientifi c works. In
the last four decades, the Arab historians has been publishing dozens of papers devoted to the Turkic military leaders and rulers in this period of the Middle East history and the decisive contribution of the Turks in the expulsion of the crusaders from the region of the Muslim world. Arab authors have noted the leading role
of the Seljuks and the Mamluks in the struggle of the Muslims with the crusaders.