Fragmentary dish showing men stick-fighting
Fatimid Egypt, 11th century

Photo by Aidan McRae Thomson

The man on the right may have a tiny shield.

Referenced on p.78, The Art of Medieval Spain AD 500-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fragmentary dish showing men dancing with large sticks. Glazed and luster-painted ceramic. Egypt, 11th century. Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Referenced as figure 150 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle

Vol. 2 p.388, During the Crusades, Muṭṭawī'ah volunteers came from Egypt, as they did from other parts of Ṣalāḥ al Dīn’s empire,¹⁴ (Figs. 150 and 156), although by contrast many Egyptian cities unlike those of Syria, do not appear to have had their own aḥdāth.¹⁵

14. Gibb, “The Armies of Saladin,” loc. cit.
15. Ibn al Athīr, “Al Kāmil fī ʾl Ta'rīkh,” in Arab Historians of the Crusades, F. Gabrieli trans., (London 1969), p. 259.

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Fig. 156. Ivory panels, 11th-12th centuries AD, Fāṭimid, Museum für Islamische Kunst no. 1.6375, West Berlin (Bris).

Fragmentary dish showing men stick-fighting Fatimid Egypt, 11th century

Fragmentary dish showing men stick-fighting
Fatimid Egypt, 11th century