Day: June 25, 2020

The filly worth 600,000 dirhams

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I finally located the original reference to the famous account of the gift of a really expensive desert-bred mare to al-Malik al-Nassir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, Syria and Hijaz. He reigned from 1293 to 1341 CE, with two interruptions (1294-99 and 1309-10). Al-Nassir Muhammad was really fond of desert-bred horses from Arabia. … Read more

Bani Lam in Eastern Iraq and Iran

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Check out this excellent article about the modern Bani Lam tribe, a subset of the medieval tribe of same name. Some sections of the first, old tribe of Bani Lam splintered, reformed, absorbed sections from other tribes, and become the modern day tribes of al-Dhafeer, al-Fudul, Aal Mughirah, and Aal Kathir (Al-E-Kassir in Farsi). The … Read more

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