1 janv. 1292 - Batte of Al Madfun

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From Kamal Salibi's book:

After relating the fall of Tripoli and Jubayl, Ibn al-Qila‘I went on to tell of the Mamluk expedition against Kisrawan which was organized in 1292 under Qalawun’s son al-Ashraf Khalil (1290-1294) and which was
defeated by the Lebanese mountaineers. Ibn al-Qila‘i considered the victory of the muqaddamin at the time as a revenge for
the fall of Tripoli, and not as a defeat inflicted on a special Moslem expedition directed against Kisrawan. He gave no date when he
related the event:

The muqaddamln of the mountains heard [the news].
They rang the church bells and assembled,
Placing by lot two thousand of the brave
On each of al-Madfun and al-Fidar.
[Then] thirty thousand warriors
Descended from the mountains like rain,
And the Moslem, out on a stroll,
Found death waiting on the battlefield (2).

Then follows an elaborate account of the battle. Ibn al-Qila‘i listed with pride the names of the chieftains who distinguished themselves in the fighting: Khalid of Mishmish,
Sinan and Sulayman of Ayllj, Sa‘ada and Sarkis of Lihfid, ‘Akkar and his brother Mansur (whose hometown is not mentioned, ‘Antar of al-‘Aqura, and Binyamin of Hardin.

While the battle raged near Jubayl, Kurdish troops coming from the south to rescue the routed Moslems were beaten off and robbed
of their weapons by the Lebanese warriors who kept watch at Nahr al-Fidar, while the Moslem soldiers fleeing northwards were stripped clean by the warriors guarding Nahr al-Madfun. Once
the rout of the Moslems was complete, the muqaddamln and their men met at Maad to divide the booty:
They took four thousand horses,
Weapons and spears beyond count,
Numerous helmets and coats of mail,
And gold and silver in abundance.
They divided all this among thirty-thousand,
And every muqaddam received a share.
All in all there were thirty muqaddamin,
Not counting the one who had fallen into heresy.


It is interesting to consider here a comment made by the author of the mukhtasar, who also wrote a history of Maad, on the importance of that village as a meeting place for the Lebanese mountain chieftains in the Middle Ages:

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