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33 Ibn Shaddād,
, vol. 2, 89.

34 al-Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn
al-Sufī,
Nukhbat al-dahr fī ‘ajā’ib al-barr
, ed. M. A. F. Mehren (Saint Pétersbourg, 1866), 210.

35
al-Dīn Khalīl b. Aybeg,
Al-Wāfī bi’l-wafayāt
, ed. H. Ritter (Wiesbaden, 1980), vol. 10, 342.

36 Ibn Shaddād,
, vol. 2, pt. 2, 63

37
, vol. 10, 342.

38 See Chapter 1.

39 Amitai, “Inscriptions at
,” 110.

40 Oliver of Paderborn,
Historia Damiatina
, 169–71; Benvenisti, M.,
The Crusaders in the Holy Land
(Jerusalem, 1976), 176.

41 Benvenisti,
Crusaders
, 203.

42 Ibn Shaddād,
Ta’rīkh
, 351–9; Amitai, “Inscriptions at
,” 113, Ellenblum, “
,” 110–11.

43 For a detail of the events that lead to the destruction see Chapter 1.

44 Ibn
,
Tashrīf
, 89–90.

45 Ibn
, 93.

46 Ibn Shaddād,
Ta’rīkh
, 242.

47 Ibn
,
Tashrīf
, 129

48 Ayalon, D., “ Studies in the structure of the Mamluk army – III,”
BSOAS
16 (1954): 63–4; Humphreys, R. S.
From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of amascus 1193–1260
(Albany, 1977), 456, n. 34; Irwin, R.,
The iddle East in the Middle Ages: The arly Mamluk Sultanate 1250–1382
(London, 1986), 38.

49 Ayalon, “Structure III,” 64.

50 Irwin,
Middle East
, 38.

51 See the case of
al-Dīn Barghash who supervised the building of both
and Karak: Chapter 1.

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