Abstract
This chapter records the search for extant evidence that pre-dates Badr al-Din's inscription and refers to the burial of al-Husayn's head in Ascalon. Having only found reference to a shrine in honour of Christian decapitated martyrs there in the early fourth-century (marked on Madaba Map), and to the town's prestige as a destiny of ribāṭ for pious 'defenders' in the Umayyad and early Abbasid period - it argues that the Islamic shrine was constructed on the basis of a newly 'invented tradition', on previously consecrated grounds. Its merits were listed in compilations known as Faḍāʾil ʿAsqalān.
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