sentences: "Khirbat 'Amuda" was known to the Crusaders as Amouhde, and pottery fragments, cisterns, and a pool have also been found there.The Arab geographer Yaqut, writing in the 1220s called the village for "Jirja", and said it was the birthplace of Abu al-Fadl al-Jirja, at one time the major authority in Palestine on hadith.