[PDF.33nw] Medieval Islamic swords and swordmaking (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies)

Medieval Islamic swords and swordmaking (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies)

[PDF.yp59] Medieval Islamic swords and swordmaking (Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies)

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 | #1972307 in Books |  2012-05-01 |  2012-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.54 x.50 x6.77l,.0 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Resource of Rare Quality.|By P. Ian McLeod|An extremely rare and difficult to find resource in translation. This book deserves great accolade for that alone, but the parallel Arabic text, additional primary sources included in the volume, and the extensive commentary make it an absolutely indispensable text for anyone studying the medieval Islamic world in a serious capacity.| |Altogether, this is a well-researched and scholarly work on the subject which will be of enormous value to the scholars and the general readers alike.' (Ayyub Malik Muslim World Book , 2007)

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One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist. The treatise "On swords and their kinds" was written by the 9th century Muslim philosopher Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi. This work was commissioned by a powerful patron of scholarship, the Abbas...

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