Vesper No. 9 | The Adversary | Fall-Winter 2023
Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsūsī
Information for the Intelligent on How to Escape Injury in Combat and
the Unfurling of the Banners of Instruction on Equipment and Engines which
Assist in Encounters with Enemies
Keywords
Polyorcetic, Mardhī ibn Ali
al-Tarsūsī, Saladin, war, military treaty
Translation by Lamia Hadda and Alberto Pireddu of an excerpt from Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsūsī’s
traitise, Tabsirat arbāb al-albāb fī kayfiyyat an-najāt
fi’l-hurūb min al-anwā’ wa nashr a’lām
al-a’lām fi al-’udad wa al-’alāt
al-mu’īnah ‘ala liqā’ al-a’dā’, 1187.
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