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The most important reason dominating the Crusades is the desire to save the city of “Holy Jerusalem” from the hands of the Muslims, who are considered pagan. This desire laid the groundwork for the perception of “Jerusalem is ours, we must save it”, as well as the idea of taking the Crusaders to Jerusalem on behalf of pilgrimage. When the historiography, which was created due to the intentional attempt to create an enemy of this approach, was processed through Jerusalem, it served both to save Jerusalem and to internalize the perception of Jerusalem in the imagination of the Crusaders.The article focuses on how and in what way the idea of the sanctity of Jerusalem was handled in the Crusader chronicles. While the purpose of this idea in creating the “other”, that is, the enemy Muslim, is put forward from the sources of the Crusaders, the benefits of using it as a historical material are mentioned. In the sanctification of Jerusalem, the instrumentality of historiography during the Crusades was evaluated in this way. In the article, causality and instrumentality methods are used together. In this context, it has been tried to make it clear why the perception of Jerusalem was processed in the Crusader sources and how it served as an instrumental to historiography..

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