Note 205 — Chapter V · THE ARABS
Reading edition
In Masudi’s “ Golden Prairies,” c. 93:—
وكثر الحريق والهدم ببغداد وعملت المنجنيقات نين القريقين
A large number of instances of the actual use of incendiaries in Asia will be found in General Maclagan’s “Early Asiatic Fire Weapons,” Jour. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, xlv. p. 30 ff.