لعبة الصولجان من المشرق إلى المغرب خلال العصر الوسيط

Abstract EN

Muslims have been interested in several sports for entertainment and recreation, including scepter, a type of ball game practiced by players on horseback, and one of the oldest sports associated with equestrian practiced outdoors, consisting of a ball made of light, flexible material such as in the field, the knights race to pick it up with a stick, called a syringe or a scepter, so this sport was not just a means of entertainment, but also a sport for both soldiers and horses, as well as a test of the morals of the players.

and their behavior.

from the above it is clear that the game of scepter is a perfectly good sport for the body of those who play it and the horses that he rides at the same time, knowing that many sports belong to certain parts of the body, it benefits all the members of the body, as it singled out the sport for the system and laws governing it, and due to this importance considered by a number of authors (in the field of equestrian) one of the greatest origins of equestrianism benefit to everyone who requested art of equestrian arts, as it took space with the poets of the middle age, and aroused their interest and worked to describe it in their poems.

identifying and developing the types of sports that have spread to the Mediterranean region has encouraged us to choose a research paper entitled "the game of scepter from the orient to Maghreb during the middle age".

the study aims to introduce the game of scepter and its development as well as its importance of sports, its relationship to equestrian and horse training, while identifying the historical works that interested in the sport.