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The following is a list of known Furusiyyah treatises (after al-Sarraf 2004, al-Nashīrī 2007). [13]Some of the early treatises (9th to 10th centuries) are not extant and only known from references by later authors: Al-Asma'i, Kitāb al-khayl (خيل "horse"), Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 894 / AH 281) Al-sabq wa al-ramī, Al-Ṭabarānī (d. 971 / AH 360) Faḍl al-ramī, Al-Qarrāb (d. 1038 / AH ...
Sulayman ibn Hisham was an Arab general, the son of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 723–743). He is known for his participation in the expeditions against the Byzantines. Zaid ibn Ali, an Arab who fought the Banu Umayyad; Muhammad bin Qasim (695–715), an early Arab General who captured Sindh and Multan and parts of Punjab in ...
According to Robert Irwin, "Even today, with the exception of certain writers and academics, the Nights is regarded with disdain in the Arabic world. Its stories are regularly denounced as vulgar, improbable, childish and, above all, badly written".
One of the tricks that the Egyptian army used in battles to fight the enemy's horses was the drum, and the second trick was to release the horses’ spurs so that the males of the enemy's horses would run after them and shake the lines of enemy knights. Egypt in the Mamluk era faced armies containing Crusader knights, Mongolian knights, and others.
At this point, the Assassins were an integral part of Syrian politics. The Arab historian Ibn Wasil [76] had a friendship with Taj ad-Din and writes of Badr ad-Din, qadi of Sinjar, who sought refuge with Taj ad-Din to escape the wrath of Egyptian Ayyubid ruler as-Salih Ayyub. Taj ad-Din served until at least 1249 when he was replaced by Radi ad ...
Fursan Al Emarat (Arabic: فرسان الامارات; lit. ' The Knights of the Emirates ') is the aerobatics Aeorabic display team of the United Arab Emirates Air Force and Air Defence.
Legendary artist, producer and songwriter Smokey Robinson is teaming up with actor and singer Halle Bailey to co-host a tribute to one of the most iconic and influential record labels: Motown.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...