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24 al-Qalqashandī, Shihāb al-Dīn
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25 Ellenblum, R., “Who built Qalat al-Subayba?,”
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26 Ibn Shaddād,
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27 Ibn
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28 Ibn Shaddād,
Ta’rīkh
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29 Ibn Shaddād,
Ta’rīkh
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30 Ibid., 357, 353

31 The secret passages at Safad are mentioned by Ibn
, 285; al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn
duwal al-mulūk
(Beirut, 1997), vol. 1, pt. 2, 563.

32 Ibn Shaddād,
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Ta’rīkh
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