the Crusader name "la Beyne" was from the Arabic name of the village "al-Bi'ina" and St. George was likely a corruption of the Arabic word sajara, which means "grove". It was exchanged by a certain Philip, head of the Milly family from Champagne, for lands in Transjordan and the hills around Hebron. The king of Jerusalem became the fief's seigneur and the services of Henricus de Milly, a wealthy relative of Philip, were transferred to the king as well. Henricus and his household continued to reside in St. George de la Beyne. A Crusader building still exists in the center of Deir al-Asad and Bi'ina which was identified as a Carthusian abbey. St. George de la Beyne was bequeathed to Henricus's daughter Helvis. By 1182, St. George de la Beyne came under the control of Joscelyn III of Courtenay. In 1187 the area was captured by Muslim forces under Saladin before passing again to Crusader control. While it was still under Muslim rule, the fief was transferred to the Pisans of Conrad de Montferrat. At a later point it was transferred to a descendant of Henricus and Josceleyn III. Between 1220 and 1249 the fief came under the full control of the Teutonic Order. The combined site of Deir al-Asad and Bi'ina remained inhabited under the Mamluks. The historian al-Qalqashandi (d. 1418) noted it was a village of the Sajur district and contained a monastery. A Mamluk source active as the Islamic head judge of Safad in the 1370s, Shams al-Din al-Uthmani, noted that the monastery treated the mentally ill. Ottoman period Endowment to Muhammad al-Asad According to Ottoman waqf (religious endowment) documents from 1838 and likely as early as the 16th century, historical accounts, and local folklore, Deir al-Asad was granted to the 16th-century Sufi sage Shaykh Muhammad al-Asad, who was also known as Ibn Abd Allah al-Asadi, and bore the alternative epithets al-Safadi (of Safed) or al-Biqa'i (of the Beqaa Valley). The waqf documents maintain that Sultan Selim I () was the grantor. On the other hand, the Damascene historian al-Burini (d. 1615), who was in turn copied by the historian Muhammad al-Muhibbi (d. 1699), and the village tradition hold that Sultan Suleiman () was the grantor. The modern historian Aharon Layish considers the former version to be correct. Selim, a sultan with strong Sufi sympathies who particularly favored Ibn Arabi, to whose Sufi school Shaykh al-Asad belonged,