Frederick II’s Arabic Inscription from Jaffa (1229)

We are deeply indebted to Professor Jeremy Johns, Director of the Khalili Research Centre and Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean, Oxford, for extending unreservedly invaluable help during the work on this article. Thanks are due to Israel Antiquities Authority (hereafter IAA) for the assistance during the work on the site, for putting at our disposal an excellent squeeze and archival photographs of the inscription and allowing us to use them. This research is carried out as part of the study of the Arabic inscriptions in Palestine sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, in the series Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (hereafter CIAP).

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We are deeply indebted to Professor Jeremy Johns, Director of the Khalili Research Centre and Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean, Oxford, for extending unreservedly invaluable help during the work on this article. Thanks are due to Israel Antiquities Authority (hereafter IAA) for the assistance during the work on the site, for putting at our disposal an excellent squeeze and archival photographs of the inscription and allowing us to use them. This research is carried out as part of the study of the Arabic inscriptions in Palestine sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, in the series Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (hereafter CIAP).