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" Ḥaṭṭīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Eddé, Anne-Marie
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English
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1063089
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ALei3486
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Eddé, Anne-Marie
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Ḥaṭṭīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Eddé, Anne-Marie
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,199 words)
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Ḥaṭṭīn (Ḥiṭṭīn) or the Horns of Ḥaṭṭīn (Arabic Qurūn Ḥaṭṭīn, modern Karnei Hattin) refers to a basalt peak rising over the plains west of Tiberias, in Galilee, where Saladin won his famous victory over the Franks in 583/1187. In early 1187, after the attack of Reynald of Châtillon, the Lord of Kerak and Oultrejourdain, on a Muslim caravan travelling between Damascus and Egypt, Saladin decided to launch a major offensive against the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Arriving with his troops in Kafr Sabt, some ten kilometres southwest of Tiberias,
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Islam.
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ALei3486.pdf
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