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MISCELLANEA SOME REMARKS ON THE ECONOMICS OF HUNTING IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM Muhammad Manazir Ahsan wrote in an earlier issue of this journal 1) on the expenditure of medieval Islamic potentates on their hunting establishments and expeditions. He also made mention of recorded prices of quarry in this connection. The author of this note has produced some interesting and useful material culled from a wide range of medieval Arabic literature. However, in consequence of what appears to be a fundamental ignorance of the actual practice of hawking, one of Ahsan's basic conclusions, namely that the lower strata of society could not afford to practice hawking, or indeed hunting at all, should be turned on its head. He has in fact supplied ample evidence that the poorer classes could, and did hunt with birds of prey. Ahsan's technical terminology of the chase is somewhat shaky also, and perhaps the present writer might be permitted to make one or two corrections in this regard. Ahsan's bay.Z,7r (p. 101, para. 2) should be translated `ostringer' or 'austringer', i.e. the man who handles, trains and hunts with a hawk (baz), as opposed to a falcon 2) which would be handled by a falconer
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1980
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