DIGS SHOW MUSLIM SEIZED CRUSADER FORT

Archeologist digging at a Crusader fotress in northern Israel have found weapons
and tools abandoned when
Muslim conqueror Salladin (Salahhudin al-Ayubb, 1138-1193) seized it 800 years
ago. The Israeli Antiquities authority
said spears, stone, cudgels and a large number of arrowheads were found at the
site of an unfinished Crusader
fortress near the Sea og Galilee. "Hundreds of arrowheads evidence of the large
battle that took place at the
site with its conquest by Salladin, were found nearby." The authority said in a
statement. It said shovels, axes,
tools for spreading plaster and picl-axes were found in a pile of plaster next
to the forttress wall.
- Petikan drp Asian Defense Journal, Jan 1995, pp 109

****notakaki****
Besar kemungkinan kota salib yang di utarakan di atas ialah Kota Hittin. Menurut
Prof. Dr Ahmad Shalaby
dalam buku beliau, Perang Salib terbitan Pustaka National Singapura mengatakan
;" Petempuran di Hittin dikira
antara peprangan yang termashur sekali. Ia berlaku pada 3 dan 4 Julai 1187
masihi. Hittin ialah satu tanah lapang
yang berbukit-bukit berdekatan Laut tabariah (Tiberias) yang bersempadankan
Baitul Muqadis. Askar-askar latin
yang berjumlah 20,000 orang yang dipimpin oleh Raja Baitul Muqadis iaitu Guy of
Lusignan dan Raynald, pemerintah
Benteng Karak". Di dalam peperangan itu, kaum Muslimin berjaya menghapuskan
seluruh tentera tersebut dan sesetengah
nya ditawan. Merujuk buku Pejuang Pembaharuan - Sallehudin al-Ayubbi karya
Abdullah Nasih Ulwan, menyatakan
kemenangan berpihak kepada kaum Muslimin kerana kelebihan mereka yang menguasai
kawasan-kawasan sumber bekalan
air di sana.

Bacaan lanjutan
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1. Asian Defence Journal, January 1995, pp 109.
2.Ulwan, Abdullah Nasih. Pejuang Pembaharuan - Salahuddin al-Ayubbi, Darul
Nu'man; Kuala Lumpur, 1999
3.Shalaby, Ahmad. Frof Dr. Perang Salib, Pustaka National Singapura, 1975

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