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None of the MSS. have this reading, nor is such a correction needed. See Saadyana, J. Q.R., vol. Guy Le Strange's The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, 1905, also Layard's Nineveh and its Remains and Nineveh and Babylon. It will be seen that Benjamin speaks of the Shrine as a Synagogue.
We owe the doubtless correct rendering of this passage to the ingenuity of the late Joseph Zedner. See Schechter, Saadyana, p. 25. See Socin, Palestine and Syria, pp. 68 and 99. Ibn Batuta and other Arabic writers have much to say about the Assassins or Mulahids, as they call them.
A small railway station is now on the spot, which bears the name Ramses. Cf. Benha is now a somewhat important railway station about thirty miles north of Cairo. On Damira see Schechter, Saadyana, p. 82; Worman, J.Q.R., XVIII, 10. The zoologist Damiri was born here.
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