![]() ![]() He had been the ruler of a small sliver of land known as the Hijaz in what is now northwest Saudi Arabia. The Islamic tide began to rise in 632 when the Prophet Mohammed died in the holy city of Medina. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Still, it’s hard to deny that certain events - and certain men - have been pivotal in saving the civilization western intellectuals disparage. The notion of “decisive battle,” like the “Great Man” theory of history, is out of favour among postmodern intellectuals, who, in catering to the fashions of multiculturalism and the current anti-western climate of opinion, tend to disregard “famous victories” of Western history. In the politically incorrect language of 19th-century historian Friedrich von Schlegel, “the arm of Charles Martel saved and delivered the Christian nations of the West from the deadly grasp of all-destroying Islam.” The Battle of Tours in 732 AD, in which Charles Martel and his Frankish army defeated the Saracen forces south of Paris, prevented Islam from dominating western Europe. The victory arguably gave Europeans time to save the cultural inheritance of the collapsing Roman Empire. Activate your Online Access Now Article contentĪ thousand years later in western France, the Roman nobleman Flavius Aetius bested the marauding hordes of Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons in 451 AD. If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers.
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