Note 102
From Chapter 58 of the Decline & Fall

The emir, or sultan, Aphdal, recovered Jerusalem and Tyre, A. H. 489 (Renaudot, Hist. Patriarch. Alexandrin. p. 478. De Guignes, tom. i. p. 249, from Abulfeda and Ben Schounah).

Jerusalem ante adventum vestrum recuperavimus, Turcos ejecimus,

say the Fatimite ambassadors.

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