Description
Al ’Adeyat
This 5-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive Arabic encyclopedia on horses. It constitutes a thorough source of information on equestrian sports, types of horses and their various characteristics – their anatomy, breeding, food habits, diseases and medications. The encyclopedia also gives a preview on horse races with descriptions of the celebrity horses in history such as the horse of Antar bin Shadad and the horse of King Al Mudhafar. This valuable and well-illustrated encyclopedia is based on the most reliable Arabic references and includes some significant allusions to horses found in the Holy Quran, the Hadith and in Arabic literature.