• Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi was a 12th-century Ayyubid-era writer and expert on military matters. He wrote a number of treatises, including a military manual...
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    trebuchet comes from a commentary on the conquests of Saladin by Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi in 1187. However cases for the existence of both European and Muslim...
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    Furusiyya (redirect from Ibn Akhī Ḥizām)
    archery, and jousting. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya adds swordsmanship as a fourth discipline in his treatise Al-Furūsiyya (1350). Ibn Akhi Hizam also cited...
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    (lambda-shaped machines) and as "Turkish trebuchets" (manjanīq turkī) by Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi and the Templar of Tyre. Mao Yuanyi (茅元儀; 1594–1640), the compiler...
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  • compete. al-Sarakhsi al-Harawi, Kitab fada'il al-ramy fi sabil Allah, a collection of 38 hadiths on archery Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi, Tabsirat arbab al-albab...
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  • 1947), Hong Kong/U.S., together with Steven Van Slyke, U.S. – OLED Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi (c. 1187), Middle East – counterweight trebuchet, mangonel Gustav...
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    member of a political organization and served time in prison. Ibn Mashghala's and Abu al-two Mashhaghal's books contain a detailed account of his life...
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    under the Ayyubid dynasty of Islamic Syria and Egypt (described by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi) and used in the Third Crusade; by the 13th century, the counterweight...
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    created a version of their own. A 12th-century treatise prepared by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi for Saladin records a version of Greek fire, called naft (naphtha)...
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