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104 Ibn Shaddād,
, vol. 2, pt. 2, 150.
105 Baybars
, 57. Accounts of the siege are given also by Ibn
,
Rawd
, 257–8; Ibn al-Furāt,
Ta’rīkh
(Lyons), vol. 2, 92–3.
106 Ibn Shaddād,, vol. 2, pt. 2, 149.
107
,
Wafayāt
, vol. 10, 341.probably borrowed the term “
hirqilī
” from Ibn Shaddād.
108 Wehr, H.,
A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic
, ed. J. M. Cowan, 4th edn (Wies baden, 1994), 1026; Steingass, F.,
Arabic–English Dictionary
(London, 1884), 1173.
109 Sharoni interprets
Hiraqlī
as being of exceptional/unique strength. Sharoni, A.,
The Comprehensive Arabic–Hebrew Dictionary
(Tel-Aviv, 1987), vol. 3, 1375.
110 Ibn Shaddād,, vol. 1, pt. 1, 82; Tabbaa explaines
bāshūra
in this particular case as a fortified gate. Tabbaa, Y.,
Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo
(Pennsylvania Park, PA., 1997), 73.
111 Ibn Shaddād,, vol. 2, pt. 2, 150; ibid.,
Ta’rīkh
, 353.
112 Ibn Shaddād,
Ta’rīkh
, 353.
113 Ibn
, 285; Maqrīzī,
Sulūk
, vol. 1, pt. 2, 563.
114 Cited in Kennedy,
Castles
, 195.
115 Pringle, “Safad,” 140.
116 Hartal,
, 24–30.
117,
Wafayāt
, vol. 10, 341;
in Syria = 0.68m; in Egypt = 0.58m.
118 Dimashqī,
Kitāb Nukhbah
, 210.
119 Ibn Shaddād,
Ta’rīkh
, 353.
120,
Wafayāt
, vol. 10, 341.