MUHAMMAD BIN LAJIN AL-HUSAMI AL-TARABULSI AL-RAMMAH : MIFTAH AL-ZALLAM FI DARB AL-HUSAM

OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED RAMADAN AH 1022/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1613 AD

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MUHAMMAD BIN LAJIN AL-HUSAMI AL-TARABULSI AL-RAMMAH : MIFTAH AL-ZALLAM FI DARB AL-HUSAM
OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED RAMADAN AH 1022/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1613 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 19ff. plus 2 modern fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. of black cursory naskh script, some phrases in red, catchwords, some marginal notes, colophon dated, in modern morocco binding
Folio 6 1/8 x 4 1/8in. (15.6 x 10.4cm.)

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The father of the present author, Amir Husam al-Din Lajin al-Mansuri (d. 1337-8 AD) was the governor of the countryside of Damascus (Wali al-Barr) between in AH 698. He is the author of Tuhfat al-mujahidin fi al-'amal bi al-mayadin, on cavalry tactics (mayadin). His son and author of the present work, Muhammad bin Lajin al-Husami al-Tarabulsi al-Rammah is the author of another treatise on mayadin, Bughyat al-qasidin bi al-'amal fi al-mayadin, written for Sayf al-Din 'Ashiqtimur al-Mardini, governor of Aleppo (d. 1389 AD) (Gulru Necipoglu, Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar, Muqarnas, Vol.XXV, p.326)

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