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Dissertations
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Al Qahira, Egyptian weekly published by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, 5 August 2003 and 19 August 2003, two articles by Ahmad Muhammad Arafa, arguing that Al Aqsa in Jerusalem is not the ‘farthest mosque’:
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Notes
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Prologue: Jerusalem 1187
1 Imad al-Din, in Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades, p. 163.
2 Imad al-Din, as quoted by Abu Shama in the Recueil des Historiens des Croisades, Historiens Orientaux, vol. IV (Paris, 1898), p. 333, and translated and reproduced in Hillenbrand, Crusades, p. 301.
3 Imad al-Din, in Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades, p. 147.
4 Saladin’s extortion ceased in 1192 only when Richard the Lionheart demanded free access for pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre.
5 Anonymous, De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum; repr., trans. Brundage, The Crusades: A Documentary History, p. 163. The author of De Expugnatione, though anonymous, is thought to have been an Englishman in the service of Raymond of Tripoli.