Question 4
"Jerusalem was taken from the north....
. The population was put to the sword by the
Franks, who pillaged the area for a week...
.. In the Masjid al-Agsa the Franks
slaughtered more than 70,000 people, among them a large number of imams (religious leaders) and scholars.... The Franks stripped the Dome of the Rock of more than 40 silver candelabra... a great silver lamp... as well as a hundred and fifty smaller silver candelabra and more than twenty gold ones.... Refugees went to the Cathedral Mosque and begged for help, weeping so that their hearers wept with them as they described the sufferings of the Muslims in the Holy City." Al-Athir, 1178
Which best describes this passage
A. It was written by an English observer during the crusades
B. It was written by an Egyptian observer during the Mongol invasion
C. It was written by a Muslim observer during the Crusades
D. It was written by a Persian observer during the Mongol invasion.
