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=====Muslim medieval sources===== According to the historian Sylvia Schein "Arab chroniclers, like [[Moufazzal Ibn Abil Fazzail]], [[an-Nuwairi]] and [[Makrizi]], report that the Mongols raided the country as far as Jerusalem and Gaza."<ref>Schein, "Gesta dei per Mongolos 1300", p.810</ref> In a 1301 letter, the Sultan [[al-Malik an-Nasir]] accused Ghazan of introducing the Christian Armenians and Georgians into Jerusalem, "the most holy sanctuary to Islam, second only to Mecca":<ref>"In a letter dated 3 October 1301, Ghazan was accused by the Sultan [[Al-Nasir Muhammad|al-Malik an-Nasir]] of introducing the Christian Armenians and Georgians into Jerusalem 'the most holy sanctuary to Islam, second only to Mecca!". Schein, 1979, p. 810.</ref> {{quote|"You should not have marched on a Muslim country with an army composed of a multitude of people from diverse religions; neither should you have let the [[Cross]] enter sacred territory; nor should you have violated the sanctity of the [[Temple of Jerusalem]]."|Letter from Sultan [[Al-Nasir Muhammad|al-Malik an-Nasir]] to Ghazan, October 3rd, 1301.<ref>Quoted in Luisetto, p.167</ref>}} The Arab historian Yahia Michaud, in the 2002 book ''Ibn Taymiyya, Textes Spirituels I-XVI'', describes that there were some firsthand accounts at the time of forays of the Mongols into Palestine, and quotes two major contemporary Muslim sources ([[Abu al-Fida]] and [[Ibn Taymiyyah]]) who state that Jerusalem was one of the cities that was invaded by the Mongols:<ref>Michaud Yahia (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) (2002). Ibn Taymiyya, Textes Spirituels I-XVI (in French). Chap. XI.</ref> <!-- He was not providing a history book, he was just reproducing spiritual texts. I challenge whether this is a reliable secondary source --> {{quote|"The Tatars then made a raid against Jerusalem and against the city of Khalil. They massacred the inhabitants of these two cities (...) it is impossible to describe the amount of atrocities, destructions, plundering they did, the number of prisonners, children and women, they took as slaves".|[[Abu al-Fida]], Histoire.<ref>Quoted in Michaud Yahia, p.66-67 Transl. Blochet t.XIV, p.667, quotes in Ibn Taymiyya, Textes Spirituels, Chap XI</ref>}} <!-- This is a primary source quote, and should be moved to wikisource or wikiquote --> {{quote|"The Mongols first marched against Syria in 699 (1299-1300)... In Jerusalem, in Jabal al-Salihiyya, in Naplouse, in Daraya and other places, they killed a number of people, and made a number a number of captives only known to God."|[[Ibn Taymiyyah]], Textes Spirituels, Chap XI.<ref>Quoted in Michaud Yahia, p.66-67 Transl. Blochet t.XIV, p.667, quotes in Ibn Taymiyya, Textes Spirituels, Chap XI</ref><ref>Also quoted in "L'Orient au Temps des Croisades", p.125</ref>}}<!-- This is a primary source quote, and should be moved to wikisource or wikiquote --> The 14th century Muslim historian [[Al-Mufaddal]] also mentions the massacres of the populations of Jerusalem and the nearby city of [[Hebron]] (30 km south of Jerusalem) by the Mongols during the 1299-1300 campaign,<ref>Referenced in Luisetto, p.205</ref> and even mentions, together with Al-Nuwayri, that a cross was raised on the top of the [[Mosque of Abraham]] in Hebron.<ref>Luisetto, quoting Al-Mufaddal and Al-Nuwayri, p.206</ref>
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