Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking: Kindi's Treatise "On Swords and Their Kinds"

by Robert G. Hoyland and Brian Gilmour

Book Overview

The Gibb Memorial Trust was founded in 1902 in memory of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, a scholar who devoted his life to researching the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs. His particular interest was the poetry of Ottoman Turkey, the fruits of which were published, mostly posthumously, in the six-volume History of Ottoman Poetry.

The objectives of the Gibb Memorial Trust are to promote the study and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906094577
• ISBN13: 9780906094570
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.5"