A Muslim manual of war: being Tafrij al-karūb fī tadbīr al-hurub / Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Awsī al-Ansarī; edited and translated by George T. Scanlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Awsī, ʻUmar ibn Ibrāhīm, -1350 or 1351.

Contributor:

Scanlon, George T.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

War--Religious aspects--Islam.

War.

Physical Description:

viii, 130, 97 pages: facsimiles; 24 cm

Other Title:

Added title page: Tafrīj al-kurūb fī tadbīr al-ḥurūb

Place of Publication:

Cairo : American University at Cairo Press, 2012.

Language Note:

Text in Arabic and English.

Summary:

One of the first three books published by the AUC Press after its founding in 1960 was A Muslim Manual of War, an annotated editing and translation of a hitherto little-known fifteenth-century Arabic manuscript on the art of war, prepared by George Scanlon, then embarking on his career to become one of the most respected scholars in the field of Islamic art, architecture, archaeology, and history. Now, in celebration of 50 years of the AUC Press, and in honor of Professor Scanlonʹs recent retirement after an illustrious career, most recently as professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, the AUC Press is proud to make available once again this long out-of-print book, as a freely accessible scanned facsimile with a new Introduction by the author and a Foreword by eminent scholar Carole Hillenbrand, a former student of Professor Scanlon. -- Publisher description.

Notes:

This a facsimile of 1961 edition published: Cairo: American University at Cairo Press.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781617971112

1617971111

OCLC:

809637004