“In the space of eighteen months three of the most renowned cities of the Arab world - Tripoli, Beirut, and Saida - had been taken and sacked, their inhabitants massacred or deported, their emirs, qadis[judges], and experts on religious law killed or forced into exile, their mosques profaned.” CrusadesTripoliEmir Book:The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Source: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes