Arab/Muslim tactics - Historum

Hercules · April 15th, 2011, 06:59 AM

I have heard of medieval military manuals in Arab, I have read a few translations which gave very interesting details like that of Umar Ibn Ibrahim Al Ansari but I was wondering if anyone out there knows more about Arab primary sources and provide me with some translations. Also of interest, although not Middle Eastern in nature is Timur's supposed autobiography (Mulfazat Timuri). Any help is to be greatly appreciated!!

SudaniMujahid · April 18th, 2011, 02:55 AM

Erm.... I could recommend you research, History of al tabari, Ibn Khaldun, ibn khateer, ibn ishaq, these are well noted islamic and arabs historians

I recommend the book of khalid ibn walid, it gives a detailed accounts of early arabs conquests of islam

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Aswell as tarikh al khufala, it is a well written acount from the of the rightly guided caliphs to abbasid caliphates,

SudaniMujahid · April 18th, 2011, 03:09 AM

Is this the book your own about?

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A Mamluk Manual of War from the Fourteenth Century

Umar Ibn Ibrahim al-Awsi Al-Ansari, also known as Ibn al-'Adim, was a scholar and a civil servant in Egypt in the late fourteenth and earlu fifteenth centuries. Before he died in 1408, he composed a manual on the art of warfare, called the Tafrij al-Kurun fi Tadbir al-Hurub. This work is divided up into twenty books, which deal with various topics, such as the qualities of generals and troops, the use of deception to avoid war, precautions to be taken when marching and setting up camp, and how to conduct and defend against sieges. The following three sections deal with conduct about battles. The texts are republished in PDF versions.

A Muslim Manual of War from the Fourteenth Century