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Ibrahim ibn Mufarrij al Suri; Sirat Al Iskandar

(A Live of Al Iskandar)(13th)

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Taken from: Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms. Festschrift for Wolihart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by his Students and Colleagues by Beatrice Gruendler, ‎Michael Cooperson

(Alexander encounters a rider mounted on an animal which has:)

….hooves like the cloven hooves of a cow. It has an onager’s body, and the tail of a gazelle. It has the leap of a camel and its head looked like a horse’s head with gazelle’s horns. Its forelegs were taller than its hind legs. The saddle was stuffed on the rear side more than on the front side, for the animal’s back was sloped because of the different length of the legs.

Left: part of a tapistery made in Tournai now in Portugal from 1510