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Haifa

حيفا

A town below the tip of Mount Carmel with a good harbour for fleets, three light stages from Qaysariyya. 1

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Haifa is a town at the foot of Mount Carmel, with a fine harbour where a fleet and other vessels can anchor. It lies three light stages from Caesarea, according to al-Idrisi. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 365
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.365
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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

Syrian-born Muslim preacher and resistance leader (1882–1935) who fought the French in Syria and organised armed resistance to British rule and Zionist settlement in Palestine, where British forces killed him in 1935.