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Exploits of the Turks

work by al-Jāḥiẓ

Also known as: “Manāqib at-turk”

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In al-Jāḥiẓ
…by writing essays such as Manāqib at-turk (Eng. trans., “Exploits of the Turks,” in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1915), a discussion of the military qualities of the Turkish soldiers, on whom government policy depended.
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