Al-Mas'udi

Quotes

• “He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country c...”
• “An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qarta...”
• “When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the...”