Usama ibn Munqidh
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Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, faris, and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern S
The fortress of Shaizar.
Mount Qasiyun in Damascus, where Usama was buried.
Furusiyya
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Furūsiyya is an Arabic knightly discipline and ethical code developed in the Middle Ages. It was practised in the medieval Muslim world from Afghanistan to Muslim Spain, and particularly during the Cr
Usama ibn Munqidh
…مجد الدّين اُسامة ابن مُرشد ابن على ابن مُنقذ الكنانى الكلبى) (4 July 1095 – 17 November 1188) or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His life coincided with the rise of several medieval Muslim dynasties…
Illustration of a horse's ideal physical traits, 13th century manuscript of the Kitāb al-bayṭara by Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq al-Azdī.
Muhammad ibn Yaqub al-Khuttuli: Kitab al-furusiyya wa’l-baitara (Horsemanship and Veterinary Book). Leiden University Library manuscript Or. 299 (1), 1343.
Late Mamluk / early Ottoman Egyptian horse armour (Egypt, c. 1550; Musée de l'Armée.
Late Mamluk-era manuscript on training with the lance (The David Collection Inv. nr. 19/2001, c. 1500).