He wrote a long overview about its Umayyad Mosque, Citadel of Damascus, its habits and about Salah Eldeen. He left Damascus to Acre, when it was under the Crusades control,.to sail with Christians merchants to Sicily. He described the Crusades emirates on the Syrian coast, the Muslim prisoners in their prisons, the horrible he had faced off in the sea until he arrived Sicily island in the days of Gilliam.