Atlit Castle - spiritual refuge for the Knights Templar

After the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, the coastal towns of the Kingdom of Jerusalem grew in importance. This shift affected not only urban centers but also fortified sites. One such stronghold was the castle at ʿAtlit, also known as the Castle of the Pilgrim (Castrum Peregrinorum, or in French, Château Pèlerin). The site lay close to the earliest guard tower manned by the Templars at the beginning of their activity during the reign of King Baldwin I (1100–1118), located at the narrow Destroit pass (Khirbat Dustray). By the thirteenth century, however, ʿAtlit had acquired a particular spiritual significance for the Order, one that ultimately surpassed the primarily military role of the early thirteenth-century fortress. What, then, made ʿAtlit distinctive? 

The Ribat, a muslim model for Christian religious militia such as the Knights Templar?

"The Templars were the first military order,  a completely new, hybrid type of organization merging the hitherto mutually exclusive spheres of chivalry and monasticism into a single institution of sacred violence. Beforehand, chivalry and monasticism had been regarded as incompatible spheres. It was only at the beginning of the nineteenth century that the suggestion was first made that this order was inspired by Muslim institutions. Was that justified?