The final page of the treatise on horsemanship titled Kit?b al-Siy?sah f? ‘ilm al-far?sah wa-ash?’ir al-khayl wa-am?’irh? and falsely attributed to the last of the Orthodox caliphs, ‘Al? ibn Ab? ??lib (d. 661/40). According to the colophon shown here, lin

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