The article is devoted to the study of the image of the Crusades in the works of Arabic visual art of 1914-1948, in which the action takes place during
the Third (1189-1192) and Seventh (1248-1254) Crusades. Analysis of the plays «Abṭāl al-manṣūra» («Heroes of Mansura», 1915) and «Ṣalāḥ al-dīn al-ayyūbī munqiḏ falisṭīn» («Salah ad-Din al-Ayyubi, Savior of Palestine», 1948), as well as the films «Šajarat al-durr» («Shajarat ad-Durr», 1935) and «Ṣalāḥ al-dīn al-ayyūbī» («Salah ad-Din al-Ayyubi», 1941) showed that if in plays created before the First World War, Arab authors only praised the commanders of the past who defeated the Crusaders, then starting from this global military conflict, the theme of the Crusades began to be used also in order to liken modern Europeans to the Crusaders and draw analogies between the Crusades and the colonial presence in the Middle East. At the same time, the film industry continued to reproduce the romanticized image of the Crusades that emerged in the 19th century. In the analyzed works, the trend towards
the Arabization of the past, which developed within the framework of the Arab
Revival, also continued: non-Arab heroes, primarily Salah ad-Din, are most often referred to in the works as «Arab leaders».