Ḥaṭṭīn (Ḥiṭṭīn) or the Horns of Ḥaṭṭīn (Arabic Qurūn Ḥaṭṭīn, modern Karnei Hattin) refers to a basalt peak rising over the plains west of Tiberias, in Galilee, where Saladin won his famous victory over the Franks in 583/1187. In early 1187, after the attack of Reynald of Châtillon, the Lord of Kerak and Oultrejourdain, on a Muslim caravan travelling between Damascus and Egypt, Saladin decided to launch a major offensive against the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Arriving with his troops in Kafr Sabt, some ten kilometres southwest of Tiberias,