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La tradition chevaleresque des Arabes (The chivalric tradition of the Arabs) is a work by Egyptian writer and politician Wacyf Boutros Ghali (1878–1958) that attempts to link the chivalric tradition of the European Middle Ages to the manners and customs of the Arabs. The author considers several key characteristics of chivalry, namely ancestral and moral pedigree; regard for women, horses, and weapons; and, above all, honor, which he regards as common to the Arabs and to medieval Europe. “If Arabia guarded the plant and flower of Honor as its ...