Quotes by : Al-Mas'udi

An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre....

When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man....

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall....

He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of....

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of....