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Commentatio exhibens historiam emirorum al omrah ex Abulfeda (Commentary on the history of the amir al-umara’ of Abu al-Fida’) is an academic study in Latin of the Islamic political and military office known as amir al-umara’ (commander of commanders). The author, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit (1795‒1860), produced the work as a student essay in 1815 at Göttingen University. Just 20 years old at the time, Umbreit won first prize among student papers and was rewarded with publication of his essay at university expense. Although Umbreit studied with the famous ...